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.

  • Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Lol no , It just that Europeans are not lazy as some Americans who can’t even take 2 minutes to install an app.

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      1 year ago

      You just explained why Europeans have a lot more motivation to install it than Americans do, yet you immediately jump to laziness as an explanation for why Americans aren’t as eager to adopt an app they have little reason to care about.

      Your attempt to criticize Americans is very…what’s the word…oh yeah, lazy.