The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that “gatekeepers” not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google’s parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.
But nobody in Europe uses iMessage.
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Android users don’t receive anything at all through iMessage; the whole conversation becomes SMS/MMS. I suppose getting major, relevant tech details is hard for an outlet like Engadget.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I think you’re just being pedantic here.
I’m pretty sure they meant when messages are sent using the iMessage app - from the point of view of iPhone user distinction between iMessage protocol and SMS/MMS doesn’t matter.
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
The app is called Messages. The entire point of the article is to discuss the iMessages versus SMS so I absolutely do think it’s important to get the distinction right in this case.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Your whole argument is based on failing to distinguish sending from receiving. You understand those are different things, right?
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
There is nothing to distinguish here. iMessage is the protocol and messaging platform. An iMessage sent remains as an iMessage when received. Android users are not sent and do not receive iMessages. They are sent SMS/MMS and they receive SMS/MMS.
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you want “when their sent [from] iMessage”? I think you’re being really pedantic.
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
They’re not sent from iMessage. That is the point. If you write an article in a tech publication talking about messaging apps and protocols, you need to get the names right.
SinTacks@programming.dev 11 months ago
Low quality SMS. There are lots of things Apple could do to improve the experience of texting people without iMessage, lots of things built into the SMS standard that they do t implement.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What on earth is “low quality SMS”? And what parts of the SMS communication protocols don’t they implement?
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
This is an advertising campaign to get Apple to adopt Google's proprietary version of RCS, which is not the SMS standard. It is, functionally, Google's own version of iMessage, running Google software on Google servers.
kogasa@programming.dev 11 months ago
RCS is not SMS and has nothing to do with the SMS standard.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What exactly?