They’re not user unfriendly changes if 95% of users just don’t care.
Why are people up voting this? This is such ridiculous FUD that I can’t take it seriously.
Because who is going to operate the servers?
Originally with RCS it was the carrier, but basically every carrier switched to using Jibe (by Google) for the backend.
And it sounds like Apple is going to operate their own as well.
Alternatively, this is perhaps the only way for Microsoft to pressure hardware makers to stop shipping BIOS motherboards. They won’t naturally go away unless there’s an incentive.
Oh, okay. I found the option. Just didn’t know that was a thing.