Apple’s iMessage looks likely to win an exemption from the EU’s demand for interoperability via the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Samuel Stolton for Bloomberg News:
European Commission officials are leaning toward the reprieve for Apple as part of a five-month market investigation which concludes in February, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
If designated under the Digital Markets Act, the company would have faced potentially onerous obligations to make iMessage work with rival online messaging services, such as Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger — a move that Apple has strongly contested.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote in September:
With the UK — where Apple’s iMessage is actually used in numbers — no longer a part of the quasi-governmental EU bureaucracy and the majority of the people in EU countries using WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, etc., it’s entirely possible, if not probable, that Apple falls outside of the EU red tape machine’s latest bout of innovation-stifling overreach.
Those who choose to be led by idiots live idiotically.
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Might not be necessary anyway.
Apple will kill that hack easily.
I think you may want to watch the vid to hear his explanation of why it would be difficult for Apple to actually kill the hack. It sounds like it would be hard to do without also damaging the foundation of iMessage for all Apple users in the process.
Like I said:
I hope Apple finds a way to stomp this out in its tracks.
Maybe use Face ID or Touch ID to verify that the pirated serial numbers are legit.
Once more, watch the vid. You’ll understand that the serial numbers are legit, though ‘borrowed’ and new ones can be quickly found to replace any that get ‘banned’ by no fault of the actual Apple device owner of the HW the serial number belongs to.
How about, “no messages can be sent or read without an Apple Face ID”.
Since android devices have no Apple Face ID, no messages will be sent from an android device.
What would be great is if Apple’s iMessage worked sateside. Seriously – I have never seen so many bugs and blips in Apple’s software or services, ever, not even during the transition to OS X or Intel chips. It’s getting kind of stupid. They cannot adhere to their price tag for much longer while delivering such a sub-par experience. Personally, and no one need agree: I think Silicon Valley died with Steve Jobs. Millennials and later were and are simply not worthy of the mantle. It is such. A. Mess.
Zuckerburg, Schmidt, were the preamble to another technological dark age, and I do absolutely fully blame the likes of them, 100%. That Apple now follows them speaks for itself. Additionally, that Apple is still the more desirable alternative – sheesh. That says a lot in the 21st century, and it isn’t good.