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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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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Google and company can go fuck themselves on this one, and I'm usually the first one to bash on Apple for selling overpriced status symbols.

I'm frankly amazed at how much importance Google gives iMessage, when it's not the number 1 messaging app anywhere in the world. Hell, even if you assume Apple halved its report of monthly active users in Europe, that's 90 million people in Europe. Significant, but less than 25% of the total population of the EU

Outside USA and Canada, you'll be hard pressed to find people who give a damn about iMessage, because most are using a different, cross compatible app anyway, like Whatsapp or Telegram, even across most European countries.

[–] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because iMessage is probably the number 1 reason for iphone purchase in USA

this will obviously help google gain market share in the us

[–] nave@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I highly doubt it’s the number 1 reason for iPhone purchase but also, why would Europe be regulating something that exclusively happens in the Us?

[–] galloog1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You can highly doubt all you want but go do some research on current consumer behavior after you are done doubting.

[–] Builtin@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you be against standardizing messaging over the net? How is that a bad thing?

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SMS would basically be dead if Apple adopted RCS, that's why it's important. SMS needs to die.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest question, should sms die because it's being a paid for service or for the insecurity or both or more?

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It'll probably always stay as a fallback, but because it's an incredibly outdated protocol and lived far past it's age.

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Sms is a 20+y old standard. Could just be sending smoke messages, it would be equally secure and feature rich...

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because apparently you get very annoying workarounds from the incompatibility.