I‘ve been using iMessage with the iPad for about 2 to 3 years. It’s not about telling your contacts to use email to iMessage you. As
@aggie99 stated.. as long as your contacts save your email then iMessage will do the work for you. I don’t care to do the two phone lineup as well (no shade to those who do)... But I‘d rather carry an iPad with me.
And I stated this in the Fold thread, the iPad has different roles for me… laptop replacement, tablet along with a communication device (iMessage). But let me acknowledge my method might seem unorthodox, but it works for me.
Yup! That’s why I stopped doing it… I wanted it all or nothing lol. Then there was the omission of read receipts as well.