thehatfox@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoiMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open uparstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down16
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minus-squarekpw@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up54·11 months agoThe same right the EU has to enforce standards in money, electrical plugs, data protection or food safety. Does your country not have laws on what products can and cannot be sold within its borders?
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·11 months agoThe only common messaging protocol is SMS, and iMessage supports that If RCS becomes a generally supported standard (ie not just Google), then it would be fair to require Apple to support that, as one of many. It really seems like the focus on Apple is just a distraction from the larger effort of trying to implement a new standard
The same right the EU has to enforce standards in money, electrical plugs, data protection or food safety. Does your country not have laws on what products can and cannot be sold within its borders?
The only common messaging protocol is SMS, and iMessage supports that
If RCS becomes a generally supported standard (ie not just Google), then it would be fair to require Apple to support that, as one of many.
It really seems like the focus on Apple is just a distraction from the larger effort of trying to implement a new standard