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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
submitted 2 years 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 8 points 2 years ago (9 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.

[–] sanitetah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I use SMS a lot, in the EU. So does, most of my family, and friends. So idk where you get this from? GF and her friends and family too.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My understanding is that while the US and some others quickly moved to unlimited texting plans, many European countries continued to charge per text so apps like WhatsApp become the defacto replacement

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

In France we got unlimited texts at about the same time as unlimited data.

I don't think a plan with unlimited data and limited texts ever existed.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You probably use SMS mostly for getting codes

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[–] Xia@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

All I want is to be able to message people using discord through Signal. Or from Messages to Whatsapp. And just be able to send and receive decent quality videos between iMessage and non-imessage users.

It's so annoying having to juggle so many different messaging apps just to talk to people.

Why can't it be like email?

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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

As much as I have been on the EU’s side on every case that they’ve had against Apple. This should be a giant red flag that Google is pushing this so hard.

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