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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by CharlesW on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:06PM (#33184962)
> Why is the answer not to force interoperability?

Do you want the U.S. government to just strong-arm a private company into adopting a not-very-popular plaintext messaging standard, or do you want them to force the licensing of Google's proprietary extensions that support encryption for 1-to-1 messages as well? (Even with proprietary extensions, group messages are always plaintext.)

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by akmarinov on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:16PM (#33185064)
To also give up control back to carriers, so that they can sell you packs of RCS messages with your plan.
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by fyvhbhn on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:32PM (#33185174)
Force them to implement Matrix
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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by XorNot on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:25PM (#33185133)
The US Government can declare that the companies involved must come up with a way to provide equivalent functionality when interoperating between platforms, and then the companies can figure out how best they want to do that.

Then every day that's not the case after a grace period, or without convincing evidence they're working on it, they can eat fines or sanction from the FCC.

I don't care how they solve this problem, just that they do and that's what effective regulation is about.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by dotnet00 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:09PM (#33185957)
The US government can mandate some amount of compatibility just as the EU recently mandated USB-C
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