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  • @[email protected]English
    56•7 months ago

    Illegal Anti-Competitive / Cartel behaviour, yes??

    Apple, you are only exempt-from-law UNTIL the regulators decide to do their jobs honestly.

    THEN, you’re hosed.

    _ /\ _

    • @[email protected]English
      17•7 months ago

      I mean, even the EU already exempted iMessage from the new rules.

      Because they already follow a standard. SMS and MMS.

      And with them adopting RCS? There’s nothing they can force to open iMessage.

      • @[email protected]English
        34•7 months ago

        They exempted iMessage because it’s not big in Europe. If it were as big as in the US it would’ve fallen under the DMA.

        • @[email protected]English
          23•7 months ago

          Exactly I don’t know a single person in Europe who uses or cares about iMessages. This is in the US only.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•7 months ago

            I have seen some iphone users use it with some other iphone users. But it’s very rare.

            • @[email protected]English
              9•7 months ago

              Literally everyone I know uses WhatsApp. It’s probably been over a decade since I last sent or received an actual SMS (except for 2FA codes).

              • @[email protected]English
                2•7 months ago

                I’d rather not use a meta application just to send an SMS. I have WhatsApp but it’s only for communication with overseas relatives.

                With RCS I don’t see the appeal of WhatsApp

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•7 months ago

                  The appeal is: 100% of your family and friends use it. A good fraction of businesses use it for customer service too. Not using it will have you left out of a pretty big chunk of social life.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•7 months ago

                  WhatsApp works on Android (AOSP), while RCS only works on Google-approved versions of Android. But I am not about to use both.

            • Eggyhead
              2•7 months ago

              In Japan and a lot of Asia, most people use LINE.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•7 months ago

              In the Netherlands: whatsapp. You can’t avoid whatsapp here. Telegram is used by a smaller fraction, but it got a bit of a bad rep during the pandemic due to primarily attracting anti-vax rioters.