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European Union ’s Digital Markets Act ( DMA ) regulation , which will hit tech giants in 2024 , will ask orotund - sized message apps to be interoperable with other services . However , Apple ’s iMessage might not have to comply with this as the EU tentatively deduced that the serving is not democratic enough with concern users , fit in to a report card byBloomberg .
While the final determination is not set in Harlan Fisk Stone , Bloomberg ’s report cited information from people familiar with the matter . Those sources say that the Bloc will not inquire Apple to make iMessage interoperable . That think it wo n’t necessarily have to work with other services such as Messenger or WhatsApp .
In September , the EU listed 22 services that fall under the DMA from six ship’s company , including Alphabet , Amazon , Apple , ByteDance , Meta and Microsoft . However , Apple ’s iMessage was n’t part of the list at that time — iOS , the App Store and Safari are still affected by the DMA .
Last month , Apple announcedthat it will take over Rich Messaging Service ( RCS ) — an update to the SMS / MMS protocol — next twelvemonth . While this move will earmark Android users to post gamey - res photos and videos , their messages will still be expose in dark-green bubbles . So there wo n’t be an end to the green house of cards versus blue bubble argument .
Tim Cook and Apple have been historically reluctant to adopt RCS . At a league last twelvemonth , when a player complained to the CEO of Apple about not being able to send videos in high-pitched resolve to his female parent , Cookresponded by sound out “ purchase your mom an iPhone . ”
While Apple might not play nicely with others when it comes to iMessage , other startups are busy create solutions to bring iMessage to Android . sooner this week , Beeper announced a fresh app call Beeper Mini thatclaims to have reverse - engineered the iMessage communications protocol . Automattic-ownedTexts.com has a limited iMessage implementationon Mac . OnePlus co - father Carl Pei ’s company Nothing trieda solution with the Sunbird appbut it had to pause the labor because of security implications .
Separately , Meta has startedpreparing WhatsApp to be interoperable , as found in the app code byWABetaInfo .
