This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google is hoping regulators will bail it out of the messaging mess it has created for itself after years of dysfunctional product reboots.
The Financial Times reports that Google and a few cell carriers are asking the EU to designate Apple’s iMessage as a “core” service that would require it to be interoperable under the new “Digital Markets Act.”
The EU’s Digital Markets Act targets Big Tech “gatekeepers” with various interoperability, fairness, and privacy demands, and while iMessage didn’t make the initial cut of services announced in September, Apple’s messenger is under a “market investigation” to determine if it should qualify.
The list targets OSes and app stores, ad platforms, browsers, social networks, instant messaging, search, and video sites, and notably leaves out web mail and cloud storage services.
Google and the carriers Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Orange sent a letter to the European Commission detailing their counterarguments on why iMessage should be regulated.
Google’s response has the “get the message” campaign, which nicely asks Apple to adopt a slightly better form of SMS for its green bubbles, called RCS.
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I agree with apple on this. iMessage is just too small over here. Google should be looking to lobby for legislation in markets where iMessage is actually popular.
Apple supports SMS. That’s the universal standard. It’s old and archaic but that’s not apples fault. Getting the carriers to agree on anything and standardize is difficult at best. RCS? Why not but that still should not force Apple to abandon iMessage.
