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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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[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

This feels a bit like asking MS Teams to play nice with Google Meet, or demanding that Apple’s office suite (Pages, Numbers, etc.) deliver the exact same product when files are saved in an OpenOffice format. This doesn’t seem to be an issue with any other products…

Apple have designed their product to work well with their devices. The Messages app still functions with non-Apple devices. SMS messages can be sent and received to anyone. The fact that pictures and whatever come through like crap is more an issue with the SMS platform than it is with Apple’s app.

Ultimately, Google dislikes the fact that there is a “green bubble” stigma (for lack of a better word) on Apple devices that encourages those who care about such things to prefer Apple devices. Because Google doesn’t have their own widely used iMessage equivalent, they can’t turn around and make messages outside their platform appear as red bubbles or something, so they are attacking from this angle instead.

Sent from my iPhone

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes but there is no green bubble stigma in Europe... We all use whatsapp and signal.

[-] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, fuck, there's no green bubble stigma in the US either. I have never once heard people complain about it in the real world

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

You're lucky then, I hear people complain about it all the time

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