EU will require Apple to open up iMessage

No, we're not talking about messaging apps in my comment tree. We're <i>explicitly</i> (without your dishonest "rather") talking about the design of OSes in consumer-facing hardware, and whether or not a messaging app comes with that is moot. Discussing hypothetical OSes matters, and always when it comes to regulation, because you don't want to recklessly regulate new entrants out of the market. Or do you just hate critical thinking? Feel free to provide better data, but Apple's platforms do not even have majority market share in the EU---not enough to backup anything that you said of entering an unspoken social contract when a company reaches a certain undefined scale: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe/ You should know that the Messages app works with SMS so you have to specify where the difference in quality of service is when an Android device can't receive an iMessage. And to the point of interoperability--iMessages has APIs for businesses: https://register.apple.com/messages And they even allow businesses to build a webhook that Apple invokes when businesses receive a message from a user: https://register.apple.com/resources/messages/msp-rest-api/messages-received#incoming-messages So, again, what exactly is the interoperability issue? Is it that iMessage chats can't be read from Telegram, and that WhatsApp chats can't be sent to a user's Signal account? Or you just can't think of a specific use case because underneath all that snark, you really know nothing about how software is made?

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