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.
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lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months agoBecause 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
JGrffn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 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.
Swuden@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wut? I’m in Europe and I’ve never had WhatsApp in my life.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
My point wasn’t specifically about Whatsapp, it’s that you have to use what the others around you use.