Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

• kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The statement in the article is literally incorrect. You cannot send a message to an Android user through iMessage. That fact is at the core of the discussion and they got it wrong.

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  • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The surrounding context of that statement is talking about the app, not the protocol. From the Apple user’s perspective, they see no difference.

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    • zeps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They do actually, the bubbles are a different color!

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      • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good point!

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    • kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Again, protocols are core to the discussion, and from the user's perspective which protocol they are using is very obvious (which, again, is core to the discussion). This isn't some trivial detail to get wrong. If they author can't carefully distinguish themselves and educate their audience, why are they even writing about it in the first place?

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      • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You went from being pedantic to straight up disingenuous.

        No reasonable person reading that line would think they were talking about the protocol. You picked out one thing you thought you could pick apart, and it makes no sense. When called out on it, you’re doubling down.

        Move on, man.

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    • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t the app on Apple devices called Messages? I thought iMessage was the name of their e2ee internet messaging protocol.

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