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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.

[–] Xia@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m in the EU, I still use a lot the sms

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

Interesting! Why?

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What else is there to use? SMS is the only cross platform protocol that works. MMS is horrible and Apple refuses ro support RCS. Of course SMS apps auto upgrades to RCS if both parties supports it which is in practice only between Androids.

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

Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, ICQ, FB messenger, Matrix, just to name a few!

[–] pajn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

None of those work without both people having the app and so provide a much worse experience over SMS, just why?

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