It’s #GetTheMessage, regulatory style.

Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage::iMessage serves should be regulated under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google and a group of major European telcos has told the European Commission.

  • DojanEnglish
    7•8 months ago

    “Through iMessage, business users are only able to send enriched messages to iOS users and must rely on traditional SMS for all the other end users,”

    I don’t see how that’s weird at all? I can send “enriched messages” to other Discord users, but I can’t do that from Discord to Matrix. Or from Discord to SMS. I can’t text my friend’s Instagram either. I don’t dare say whether or not I can mail a post onto the fediverse because that definitely sounds like some niche functionality someone has implemented (or thought to implement) somewhere.

    Doesn’t Google have that exact same thing anyway?

    What a weird thing to take issue with. Like yeah I’d obviously prefer it if there was a widely adopted open standard that everyone could use, but that’s not how capitalism works, is it?

    • @naoEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      but that’s not how capitalism works, is it?

      That’s why regulation exists.

      • DojanEnglish
        3•8 months ago

        Oh I’d love for our governments to get their collective hands out of their arseholes and actually start regulating.

        • @naoEnglish
          2•8 months ago

          Wouldn’t it be nice

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 months ago

      I think it’s weird because:

      Your iMessage and FaceTime conversations are encrypted end-to-end, so they can’t be read while they’re sent between devices.

      Source

      Is completely bullshit. It’s not secure, they can be read because iMessage is the way you send texts to Android as well as iOS, and apples absolute refusal to budge or to adopt other standards means that regulation is the only way to modernize a 30 year old protocol.