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Comment on Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off

BurningnnTree@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The article says that Apple is still planning on making iMessage compatible with RCS, but isn’t Apple’s incentive gone if there’s no longer any EU pressure? How likely is it that Apple will cancel their RCS plans?

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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s still plenty of EU pressure. This was a close enough thing that the EU spent months investigating it before making a decision.

That sends a pretty clear message to Apple “we’re OK with what you’re doing with messaging right now, but only just barely”.

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- geissi@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  “we’re OK with what you’re doing with messaging right now, but only just barely”. If Apple does something the EU doesn’t like, new legislation can be written.
  
  Because of the “only just barely” part, new legislation might not even be necessary.
  If Apple only narrowly avoided falling under the core platform definition, just a change in market share might be enough for that to change under the existing rules.
  
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