Comment on Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU

• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because that way you’re always chasing the problem instead of anticipating it. We know how Apple/iMessage behave, there is no point in waiting for them to become a problem.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, agreed with how apple act, but iMessage won’t become a problem here, because nobody uses it.

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    • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not sure where you are in Europe but here lots of people use iMessage. If you have an iPhone and want to text another iPhone, it’s usually iMessage.

      If they don’t have an iPhone then people fall back to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger or hell even Discord…

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      • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But you wouldn’t text another iPhone. You’d WhatsApp the person.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not enough people use iMessage for it to be covered by this law. It’s not large enough of a messenger.

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    • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fine, but why we should always wait for something to become (evenatually) a problem ?

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Stop saying it’s going to be a problem, there’s zero evidence that it will be. iMessage is dead in the water.

        Additionally, this law is restricting large chat apps that can dictate the market. iMessage can’t do that. It makes no sense to cover them here.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. They need to have broad competition rules. Not one per instance of competition issues. It’s same damn problem again and again; anticompetitive practices. Somehow the anticompetitive practices moving to the digital world means law makes can’t see them.

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