Perhaps the friend should have read this story (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/11/28/switching-from-iphone-to-android-switch-off-imessage/), posted back in November last year, describing how to switch from iPhone to Android. That blog post actually points back to a post by Google's Eric Schmidt (https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt/posts/JcfVoJhW2Kw).
"News" from last year?
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Perhaps the friend should have read this story (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2013/11/28/switching-from-iphone-to-android-switch-off-imessage/), posted back in November last year, describing how to switch from iPhone to Android. That blog post actually points back to a post by Google's Eric Schmidt (https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt/posts/JcfVoJhW2Kw). "News" from last year?