WhatsApp is built on a hodge-podge of open standards (including XMPP) already. It's also closed off to everyone else. Good luck with your "open standard" XMPP c

WhatsApp is built on a hodge-podge of open standards (including XMPP) already. It's also closed off to everyone else. Good luck with your "open standard" XMPP client competing when everyone in your country uses WhatsApp. Part of the DMA is that they must open this up for others so competition can actually happen in the first place (which in my reading they're not really doing in good faith by the way; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635948) Also WhatsApp isn't really "innovative" in the sense that it does something spectacularly new or brilliant. Most of the "innovation" comes from scaling it to the number of users they have, but that's a bit of a different thing. This is actually true for quite a bit of these Big Tech companies (especially the software-only companies).