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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by madeofpalk on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:57PM (#38649218)
That's nonsensical. Reddit has a monopoly on Reddit - of course it does.

Any service online is under no obligation to allow for widespread interpoperation - that would be madness.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:02PM (#38649268)
> Any service online is under no obligation to allow for widespread interpoperation - that would be madness.

Lol, "madness". The Digital Services Act in the EU would like a word.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by GeekyBear on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:23PM (#38649437)
Although the final determination is not yet locked in, the word is that Bing and iMessage have been found to not be popular enough in the EU to fall under the DMA.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-ime...

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by nicce on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:25PM (#38649458)
You can see full list of current decisions here without paywall:

https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by nicce on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:19PM (#38649415)
You are confusing with Digital Markets Act.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by unyttigfjelltol on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:03PM (#38649278)
It's madness for monopolistic communications providers to refuse interoperability.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by madeofpalk on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:06PM (#38649301)
iMessage is far from monopolistic.

Messages on iPhone is interoperable with any other mobile device - it supports SMS!

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by V-eHGsd_ on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:15PM (#38649382)
> it supports SMS!

and isn't RCS support coming too?

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