EU will require Apple to open up iMessage

Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by krzyk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:24PM (#35001473)

Spam operations have so much money that buying a bunch of iPhones is not an issue, even if they didn't, they could buy older, used iPhones for pennies.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by jaywalk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:52PM (#35001884)

Well then why haven't they? I get zero iMessage spam.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by krzyk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:11PM (#35002137)

I don't know, I don't get any SMS spam either.

Maybe we are not that interesting?

But I do get a spam call from time to time.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by jkubicek on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:26PM (#35002321)

I'll add some anechdata: I get frequent text spam (about 1/day at the peak, it's slowed a lot recently). I've gotten maybe 5 spam iMessage messages during the entire lifetime of my phone.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by rootusrootus on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:57PM (#35004377)

The bigger headache is the iCloud account required to send iMessages. A pain to set up, and after a few spam messages Apple will just terminate the account. And probably blacklist the phone used to do it. Sure, this isn't terribly expensive, but compared to the barrier of entry to SMS (zero), it is pretty substantial.

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