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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

And absolutely nothing is stopping Apple from rolling its own RCS extensions that apps can support as well

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

So what’s the idea here? Apple rolls out another extended version of RCS that’s proprietary as well?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It might be proprietary, but at least any messaging app Android, iOS or some future third competitor will be able to implement it.

Unlike iMessage which is both proprietary and closed off from third party use

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

And yet, no developer other than Samsung has been granted access to Google’s version of RCS.

I’d love to see a truly standard, rich, secure messaging service, but I’m not convinced what Google is doing here is any better than Apple.

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023

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