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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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[–] kirklennon@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The statement in the article is literally incorrect. You cannot send a message to an Android user through iMessage. That fact is at the core of the discussion and they got it wrong. It’s not degraded from an iMessage. The conversation is just happening over SMS/MMS, as the Messages app has supported since launch in 2007.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The surrounding context of that statement is talking about the app, not the protocol. From the Apple user's perspective, they see no difference except for the bubble color.

[–] zeps@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

They do actually, the bubbles are a different color!

[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Isn’t the app on Apple devices called Messages? I thought iMessage was the name of their e2ee internet messaging protocol.

[–] kirklennon@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, protocols are core to the discussion, and from the user's perspective which protocol they are using is very obvious (which, again, is core to the discussion). This isn't some trivial detail to get wrong. If they author can't carefully distinguish themselves and educate their audience, why are they even writing about it in the first place?

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

You went from being pedantic to straight up disingenuous.

No reasonable person reading that line would think they were talking about the protocol. You picked out one thing you thought you could pick apart, and it makes no sense. When called out on it, you're doubling down.

Move on, man.

[–] kirklennon@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

When called out on it, you’re doubling down.

I pointed out sloppy, inaccurate writing that hints that the writer maybe doesn't have a good grasp of the subject matter. There's nothing to "call out"; I was pretty clear from the start what I was criticizing.