iMessage will reportedly get a reprieve from the EU’s interoperability regulation. Large-scale messaging applications will be required to be interoperable with other services by the Digital Markets Act (DMA) rule that the European Union will implement in that year (2024). On the other hand, since the European Union has made the provisional determination that the service is not well-liked by business customers, it’s possible that Apple’s iMessage will not be required to adhere to this regulation.
Even though the ultimate decision has not yet been made, the report from Bloomberg cited information from individuals acquainted with the situation. Those sources claim that the Bloc will not request that Apple make iMessage compatible with other messaging services. Furthermore, this indicates that compatibility with other services, such as WhatsApp or Messenger, will not necessarily be required.
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft are among the six corporations designated by the European Union (EU) as having 22 services subject to the Digital Media Act (DMA) in September. At that time, however, Apple’s iMessage was not included on the list; the DMA continues to impact Safari, iOS, and the App Store, among other applications.
Apple has revealed that it will implement Rich Messaging Service (RCS), an SMS/MMS protocol improvement, in the following year. This announcement was made last month. Even though this change will enable Android users to share high-resolution photographs and videos, the texts they send will continue to be displayed as green bubbles. This means that the discussion between the green bubble and the blue bubble will never come to an end.
Tim Cook and Apple have been hesitant to implement RCS throughout their history. When a participant at a conference complained to Apple’s CEO about not being able to transmit films to his mother in high definition, Cook answered by stating, “Buy your mom an iPhone.” Cook was referring to the fact that the participant could not send videos to his mother.
Even though Apple may not be able to get along with other companies when it comes to iMessage, other entrepreneurs are hard at work developing methods to bring iMessage to Android. This week, Beeper made a statement about the new Beeper Mini application. This application asserts that it has reverse-engineered the iMessage protocol. Texts.com, which Automattic owns, offers a restricted implementation of iMessage for Mac products. The business founded by Carl Pei, the co-founder of OnePlus, attempted to find a solution with the Sunbird app, but because of the potential security risks, the project had to be put on hold.
