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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by sbuk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:51PM (#35000039)
Developers lives, not necessarily users. It was also a huge waste of time and money for all parties as it achieves nothing - Facebook are the market leader with WhatsApp both globally an in Europe - iMessage barely registers in the top 5.
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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by jorams on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:33PM (#35000667)
The law isn't specific to Apple, it also affects WhatsApp. Indeed in the EU that's probably much more important. Personally I don't know anybody who consciously uses iMessage, but the extreme network effects of WhatsApp make it socially impossible to move away from.
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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by smoldesu on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:08PM (#35002092)
Why wouldn't it improve? Currently none of these services offer interop; in the future they might. That's a static upgrade to me, and I'd imagine most other people too.
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