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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So why not use something like WhatsApp or Signal instead then? Sounds like a terrible user experience to me. Nobody I know uses iMessage, everybody uses WhatsApp instead, which is platform agnostic.

But I'm European, so the iPhone penetration is lower iirc and they can't stay in their bubble as much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because Whatsapp users are just as big "twats" as you call it. Try functioning without Whatsapp in Europe, you can't, and no amount of excuses will get you out of it.

Any messaging network starts acting like peer pressure once enough people around you are using it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm personally dying to see the DMA do its magic. If there's even a dreamy chance of not having to have the big messaging apps installed on my phone in order to talk to people on these platforms, then I don't want to stop dreaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In theory it would be trivial to open up the big networks, if they were each willing to expose a public, open API. The APIs don't even have to be interoperable directly, they could let the client apps deal with that. It could be rolled out super fast if they wanted to – couple of months.

But of course none of them actually wants this, so I expect they will fight it tooth and nail, while not appearing to do so. Meaning they'll drag this out for as long as possible while blaming each other. I expect RCS will be a perfect red herring for this, because of its complexity and the ability to blame interop issues on each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wut? I’m in Europe and I’ve never had WhatsApp in my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My point wasn't specifically about Whatsapp, it's that you have to use what the others around you use.