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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The long fight to make Apple's iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union's Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that "gatekeepers" not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google's parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google wants Apple to use Google’s proprietary extension of RCS, which runs on Google’s own servers as is precisely as open as iMessage. Effectively nobody uses the industry-standard version of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where's the source for that? Last I read, Google was using the GSMA Universal RCS profile

Google does own and run the Jibe platform as an RCS vendor, but Apple doesn't need to use it. They can go with a different vendor or run their own RCS servers just as easily

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google's astroturf campaign for "RCS" promotes encrypted messages but RCS has no support for this. Google wants to force people to use its proprietary extension, which runs exclusively on Google's servers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And absolutely nothing is stopping Apple from rolling its own RCS extensions that apps can support as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So what’s the idea here? Apple rolls out another extended version of RCS that’s proprietary as well?