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by willio58 1345 days ago
Yeah it seems the only solution is for Apple and Google to truly come together and work on an open standard. At that point, if Apple refuses, it’s on Apple.

I agree though, right now it really isn’t a defensible argument from Google.
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ls15 1345 days ago
The EU is going to mandate interoperability soon, because it turned out that these companies cannot be trusted with allowing users to do what they want to do.
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GeekyBear 1345 days ago
SMS already represents universal messaging interoperability.

Even ancient no-longer-updated dumb phones support SMS.

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ls15 1345 days ago
Yes, but the EU wants to open up modern messaging:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/

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