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I guess the EU will be closely watching with Digital Services Act

• sbuk 3y ago
  Why, when use of iMessage is a rounding error across the European Union, will the EU rule that Apple are a messaging Gatekeeper? The noises coming from the investagtiong body seem to indicate that they will not treat iMessage as such.
• hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  Unfortunately, the EU isn't going to save us with this one. iMessage usage is minimal in the EU because so many people use alternate messaging services, and the EU already ruled that iMessage won't be forced open because it isn't widely used by business users. In the US, iMessage market share is much higher because back in the aughts we didn't have the sky high SMS rates which forced so many users to other messaging services in other countries.
  • JoshuaRogers 3y ago
    I would suggest that as often as not, when the EU intervenes in technological affairs the result isn’t that things get massively better but rather that people are forced to deal with corporations finding ways to maliciously comply with the letter of the law.
  • shiroiuma 3y ago
    Exactly: here outside the US, absolutely no one uses SMS, so no one cares about this issue at all. It's like arguing over the rights to videotape standards. So to me it's somewhat amusing reading these arguments here.
• nicce 3y ago
  Beeper is commercial app, and because of that it classifies as ”unfair”, unpermitted use of Apple’s private services. They are making supporting argument for Apple, unfortunately, if any regulation happens.