Do you have a Mac? Or can run a Mac VM? You can use bluebubbles on a Mac that will let you use iMessage on non apple platforms

The uni doesnt care. The software vendor does and is threatening the uni for not being compliant.

Wrong. People like you are exactly what is wrong with the overhype in IT

Except google photos will nag you every few days to enable cloud sync if it’s disabled when you open the app and uses dark patterns to nudge towards accepting. I doubt iOS does that.

Selecting text from images has nothing to do with AI and predates the AI hype craze.

It’s easy. I’ve had that removed in my config for over a decade

Tree style tabs

Wallet no. For banking apps it depends on the app. For me about 80 percent work

Start page

NFS is shit anyway. It has no proper security unless you want to set up something like Kerberos (a major PITA)

The state of whether it’s an ad has to be somewhere clientside as the ads can’t be skipped by the user.

Regardless of all that, there are no other (open source) RCS clients on android because of google.

Master pdf editor

Afaik, only google dialer and samsung support RCS. This is a limitation imposed by google.