Am 07.12.23 um 17:58 schrieb badgolferman:

Android users' hopes that Apple's iMessage would be forced to open up in
the European Union have been dashed. Bloomberg reports that iMessage won't qualify for the EU's new "Digital Markets Act," allowing Apple to keep iMessage exclusive to Apple users.

The EU is deciding what should and shouldn't be under the new rules set out by the "Digital Markets Act." The idea is that Big Tech "gatekeepers" will
be subject to certain interoperability, fairness, and privacy rules. So far the wide-ranging rules have targeted 22 different services, including app stores on iOS and Android, browsers like Chrome and Safari, the Android,
iOS, and Windows OSes, ad platforms from Google, Amazon, and Meta, video sites YouTube and TikTok, and instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2023/12/imessage-will-reportedly-dodge-eu-regulations-wont-have-to-open-up/

Thank you Lord!
Diffcult to digest for the digital proletarians but very very good news
for Apple users. And RCS does not change the status quo either.

BTW: It was relatively clear that iMsg wouldn't qualifiy for the the
ruling under the DMA.

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"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)

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