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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)
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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t the EU DMA would eventually force Apple, Whatsapp… to open up ?

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

iMessage was excluded because nobody uses it here

[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s here ? I’m French and I think 90% iPhone users use it. For what I see, Whatsapp here is more, of an app dedicated to family groups and travelling abroad

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EU. They took a look at the market position in EU and came to the conclusion that it could be excluded from the legislation because it held such a little position. WhatsApp and Messenger are massive compared to iMessage.

[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh alright. Too bad

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1029506/messengers-voip-penetration-france/

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/france

Considering that Android and iPhone have 65% and 34% respectively market share in France, iMessage being used 24% overall sounds about right. But you can't disregard how massive Messenger and WhatsApp are.

[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed ! I just thought iMessage would be a bit more used

[–] Nick@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

They did fully not exclude it from legislation yet. Apple simply contested their iMessage's as a gatekeeper under the definition used in the act, and the Commission is in the process of determining whether or not that is true. If iMessage is determined to be a gatekeeper, Apple will only have bought themselves a few more months before they have to comply with the DMA.