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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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Google and company can go fuck themselves on this one, and I'm usually the first one to bash on Apple for selling overpriced status symbols.
I'm frankly amazed at how much importance Google gives iMessage, when it's not the number 1 messaging app anywhere in the world. Hell, even if you assume Apple halved its report of monthly active users in Europe, that's 90 million people in Europe. Significant, but less than 25% of the total population of the EU
Outside USA and Canada, you'll be hard pressed to find people who give a damn about iMessage, because most are using a different, cross compatible app anyway, like Whatsapp or Telegram, even across most European countries.
because iMessage is probably the number 1 reason for iphone purchase in USA
this will obviously help google gain market share in the us
I highly doubt it’s the number 1 reason for iPhone purchase but also, why would Europe be regulating something that exclusively happens in the Us?
You can highly doubt all you want but go do some research on current consumer behavior after you are done doubting.
Why would you be against standardizing messaging over the net? How is that a bad thing?
Because Google are trying to get regulators involved when it doesn’t really affect anyone?
Seems like a bad idea on principle
In my opinion, ALL nessaging apps should be compatible with each other. It should be like email, just different clients on the same protocol. I know it won't happen anytime soon (if ever in my life), but I'd like that. And we should start somewhere. Maybe here.
SMS would basically be dead if Apple adopted RCS, that's why it's important. SMS needs to die.
Honest question, should sms die because it's being a paid for service or for the insecurity or both or more?
It'll probably always stay as a fallback, but because it's an incredibly outdated protocol and lived far past it's age.
Sms is a 20+y old standard. Could just be sending smoke messages, it would be equally secure and feature rich...
Because apparently you get very annoying workarounds from the incompatibility.