Me as well, and all of my friends.
In fact, iMessage crashed my phone once so badly that I had to restore it as new.
lol nice
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It's bad for me, my family, and my friends. It used to be terrible, and it's gotten better, but it has to be nearly 100%. This thing is less reliable than AIM. I'm on AT&T but usually on wifi. Are you sure it's not just good for you?
Yup. There's a couple analyses that make it easy to look at the service status at the macro level. Not talking about Apple's green light service site, but there are some others. Source forge, etc.
Think about the last 10 years in technology. Do remember what truly failed services looks like. iMessage isn't one of them.