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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The long fight to make Apple's iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union's Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that "gatekeepers" not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google's parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.

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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Nobody in EU uses SMS, it stopped being a thing as soon as everyone had phones with internet and you could use better chat apps. So we don't give a crap about iMessage being open or not.

[–] Kyiro@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No, even if people didn't use SMS, Apple market share is actually growing and it could lead to iMessage becoming dominant like it is in the US. Even if it won't benefit us much, I'm sure Americans would appreciate the EU caring about it because the US government could never do it.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People with iPhones don't use iMessage either. They use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc.

[–] Kyiro@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

WhatsApp is not a thing at all in Poland mate. It's either SMS/RCS or fucking Messenger which has to be the worst one 😭

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kyiro@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might be a western/southern Polish thing. I only know my uncles use it to talk to their children in Britain.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh man that sucks! I already hate that I have to use WhatsApp with people who don't have Telegram, I'd be so angry if I had to use Messenger and even more angry if I had to SMS

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