Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage
by frumper on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:34PM
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You can send iMessage an sms, that is letting other companies interoperate with it, no? That sounds like WhatsApp is choosing not to implement a way to send a message to iMessage.
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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage
by dcow on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:42PM
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But you can't be blue and send iMessage an iMessage with all the nice modern messaging features. Have you ever had a group SMS where some people are iMessage and some aren't? It's unnecessarily jarring and I know that WhatsApp and Google/Android etc. would support "likes" and "loves" and "exclamations" if they could. I'm 100% certain they know exactly the right message format and data structures to use too. It's Apple that won't let rich texts be displayed as such from anyone who's not an iMessage user, by design.