re: Switched from iPhone? Here is a tool to release iMessage

This seems more like a feature gone wrong than a conspiracy. I've sent a first time text to 2 people recently that my iPhone immediately detected as other iPhones. I like the fact that it does that because iMessage uses https and gives you delivery status.

When you switch to a new phone how is Apple supposed to know? This really seems like something that should have been a solution provided through the wireless carriers support system (even if Apple creates/handles the deregistration page), they're the ones that know when you switch phones and part of the standard set up of a new phone should be any relevant deactivation of the old phone.