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Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don't trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn't handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database