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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by anticensor on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @07:39AM (#37673215)
Nothing prevents Apple from offering a non interoperable format in addition to the interoperable one. For example, offer both MIMI and Apple iMessage protocols in the iMessage app.
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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by rahkiin on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:08PM (#37677753)
It does! With automatic fallback. It is a protocol called SMS
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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:11PM (#37693406)
And it sucks so horribly to the point that it's nearly unusable in modern group chats (or, rather, MMS is the protocol that's used for group chats and that one also sucks horribly).
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