Here's why I use Facebook Messenger over iMessage almost every time

The ongoing cold war between Apple and Facebook that's ratcheted up over the past few months, with each company's CEO taking veiled and not-so-veiled potshots at the other over questions around privacy and user data, not only makes for great news copy and plenty of grist for tech bloggers. It's also a hugely consequential matter for ordinary consumers, since it's their data and their privacy at stake in the way Apple architects its hardware and services -- and in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's b...