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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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[–] plz1@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So Google will reciprocate and open up its RCS platform right? Right? I doubt it.

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

If this law passes they may very well have to.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have proposed exactly that.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I don’t care as long as the result isn’t less secure or less private than iMessage is now. Google has zero percent of my trust at this point, on the privacy front.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RCS is an open standard not owned by Google

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant their closed network for it, not the standard.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just thought it was worth clarifying since a lot of people treat RCS and Google Messages like the same thing when one is a Google product (Google Messages) and the other is an open standard (RCS)

Google Messages is built on RCS but if Apple wanted interoperability they would only need to support the open standard (RCS) not use any of Google's code or require Google's permission.