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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
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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.

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[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because he's wrong, most people use text in Europe. Even if it's addition to an app like WhatsApp.

[-] straypet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if you count receiving verification codes as "Using SMS". Even my elderly parents only use messaging apps.

I don't have anyone I contact through SMS.

There are a ton of different page patterns so I don't think "Everyone" or "No one" is using SMS.

But, in my experience, they are used very very little by most people.

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