Microsoft's Edge browser, Bing search, and ad business also avoid regulations.
    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      25·
      9 个月前

      Now that you’ve let your guard down, Apple is free to do whatever they want. It’s exactly exactly what Apple wanted.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          9 个月前

          maybe…

          but hat could take many years to spin up another massive lawsuit like this, and, by then, Apple could possibly have profited kajillions, and/or have modified their communications protocols just sufficiently to skirt regulations. or one of a dozen other legal maneuvers around this or a number of other possible future regulations…

            • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              9 个月前

              I try not to predict the future. it took them a long time to get here. I they’e going to loop back around, I can’t see it happening again soon.

                • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  9 个月前

                  It’s not about the explosive growth (or not) of iMessage. It’s a matter of fact about the legal foothold that Apple now holds. That won’t be dislodged anytime soon. Whether or not Apple can get any market growth moving forward, now the EU will have to re-file any efforts to this ruling to them in the future should they try. That is a big deal. And nothing anyone in trying in the EU will move forward anything near the weight this attempt did. 

          • Zworf@beehaw.org
            2·
            9 个月前

            Also, iMessage will become even more irrelevant now because the other platforms like WhatsApp will be forced to interoperate. By not being part of this “hive”, iMessage will become even less appealing than the others.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          9 个月前

          no, merely considered irrelevant— for legal purposes. why? read the headline.

          • sanzky@beehaw.org
            4·
            9 个月前

            Im not sure you understands how this work. but anyway… they can do whatever with their service. I (or any person I know) dont plan to use it 🤷

              • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
                5·
                9 个月前

                Insulting people isn’t nice. The only rule on this understand is to be(e) nice. This is not appropriate behavior for our instance. You didn’t need to insult someone to make your point. I’m giving you a 7 day ban to think things over.

              • Norgur@kbin.social
                2·
                9 个月前

                Dude, you tried to lead OP off on a weird tangent that

                a) they didn’t follow you on and
                b) was nonsense and lacked understanding on your part from the get go.

                Stop insulting people as being stupid when clearly you didn’t (want to) understand what was said and just tried to tell people who told personal anecdotes that their anecdotes are wrong…

          • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            9 个月前

            They must’ve been playing the long game then, iMessage has been irrelevant in Europe since before this law existed. Apple truly thinks of eveything

  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    4·
    9 个月前

    I don’t really understand why Apple defends its position on this. I don’t see anybody benefiting from iMessage being in the current form. Not even Apple.

    It’s the exact kind of stuff Apple ditches usually.

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    9 个月前

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    The iMessage service did meet the definition of a “core platform,” serving at least 45 million EU users monthly and being controlled by a firm with at least 75 billion euros in market capitalization.

    But after “a thorough assessment of all arguments” during a five-month investigation, the Commission found that iMessage and Microsoft’s Bing search, Edge browser, and ad platform “do not qualify as gatekeeper services.”

    While Apple has agreed to take up RCS, an upgraded form of carrier messaging with typing indicators and better image and video quality, it will not provide encryption for Android-to-iPhone SMS, nor remove the harsh green coloring that particularly resonates with younger users.

    Apple is still obligated to comply with the Digital Markets Act’s other implications on its iOS operating system, its App Store, and its Safari browser.

    While it’s unlikely to result in the same kind of action, Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, said at a conference yesterday that the FCC “has a role to play” in investigating whether Apple’s blocking of the Beeper Mini app violated Part 14 rules regarding accessibility and usability.

    The blocking and workarounds continued until Beeper announced that it was shifting its focus away from iMessage and back to being a multi-service chat app, minus one particular service.

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