The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that “gatekeepers” not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google’s parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.

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    1 year ago

    All I want is to be able to message people using discord through Signal. Or from Messages to Whatsapp. And just be able to send and receive decent quality videos between iMessage and non-imessage users.

    It’s so annoying having to juggle so many different messaging apps just to talk to people.

    Why can’t it be like email?

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      1 year ago

      Federated messaging services… this is actually a really cool idea.

      But I guess big companies prefer walled gardens because it makes more money.

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      Because each platform is for a different use-case. Discord sucks. It’s one of the worst UI/UX I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been using computers since the late 70’s…punched cards are only slightly worse.

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        1 year ago

        I could understand that until I experienced discords new mobile UI and the countless competitors. Definitely discord is better than all the others

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        1 year ago

        Did you use ventrilo, teamspeak, icq, irc, any 90s chatroom?

        Ui/ux has been pretty good for me who did in comparison