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iMessage will not be opening up. They lobbied hard in the EU and got an exemption for not being popular enough there I guess.

• nozzlegear 9mo ago
  Did they lobby for an exemption, or is that just how the law is written?
  • bsimpson 9mo ago
    The DMA is enforced by bureaucracy. The commission proposes that certain platforms are big enough to be regulated, and then there's a comment period/negotiation. The list of platforms currently being regulated is publicly available.
    • bootsmann 9mo ago
      There is a hard number of users you have to achieve, its one of the reasons why iOS had to allow third party app stores but playstation did not.
    • arter45 9mo ago
      In fact, Apple is still part of the DMA list with Safari, iOS, iPad OS and App Store.
  • drcongo 9mo ago
    I might be misremembering, but I think iMessage implementing RCS was the compromise.
    • hocuspocus 9mo ago
      Unlikely, iOS still doesn't support RCS in most European countries.
    • jeroenhd 9mo ago
      iMessage isn't popular enough in Europe to be broken up by the DMA from what I recall.
• Hamuko 9mo ago
  iMessage really isn't popular in Europe. Although the fact that any SMS sent between two iPhones automatically converts into an iMessage message means that there are definitely (accidental) users.