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Apple won’t be forced to make iMessage play nice with other messaging apps, because it isn’t popular enough to require regulation
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(Image credit: Future)
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Applehas received the EU message it was hoping for: it won’t be forced to make its iMessage platform interoperable with rival tech firms' messaging platforms.
Apple has welcomed the news, as it means that the iMessage platform and the Messages app can basically carry on as normal for customers in the EU. Had the investigation come to a different decision Apple might have been ordered to make iMessage play nice with messaging platforms from firms such as Meta andGoogle.
Don’t worry, though. iPhones are still going to be nicer toAndroidusers from 2024 onwards.
What does the EU verdict mean for iPhone users?
That support is in addition to its own iMessage platform and SMS text messaging, so for exampleiPhoneto iPhone messages will still use iMessage. But the experience when you’re chatting with Android users will become less limited.
Apple’s embrace of RCS isn’t whole-hearted, however. Apple has pledged to support the core features of RCS, such as Wi-Fi messaging (the current SMS standard uses the phone network), multi-device messaging, group chats and file sharing. But it won’t support the bits Google has glued onto the standard for its own apps, such as end to end encryption. And it’s keeping the green bubbles that seem to annoy so many Android users.
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