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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by aurareturn on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:11PM (#40181639)
So what's the financial incentive for companies to develop & maintain open standard messaging protocols? For example, I'm sure it costs Meta a pretty penny to facilitate messages with central servers, store historical messages, and pay engineers to maintain and develop new features. If they have then be forced to open up Messenger for free, they might not have started Messenger in the first place.

Also, SMS is the open protocol so we have at least one interoperable standard for people to choose from.

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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by Apocryphon on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:35PM (#40181834)
Facebook users needed to be able to communicate with each other. That’s a business requirement no regulation can deter.
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Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down by Repulsion9513 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @10:57PM (#40185645)
So... Meta might not choose to develop a messenger? Or maybe they would choose to use someone else's system (since again it's open and interoperable)? I'm sorry, where's the issue here?
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