Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
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Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#2Sigh. It was to be expected that regulation intended to shield users from big tech harm is twisted to instead have one giant attack another.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#3I find it interesting how these big (near?) monopolies are fighting each other through the anti-trust system. Even as it seems the anti-trust system isn't working well on its own.
I really don't know what the answer to all these related questions are (App stores and App store fees and payment systems). But it does seem to me that most of these biggest companies should be tamped down in some way. Not sure I know what the exact right answer is, though.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#4Sigh. It was to be expected that regulation intended to shield users from big tech harm is twisted to instead have one giant attack another.
It's working just as intended. If one big company points out that another big company is breaking the law and is willing to fight to prove it, I'm all for it.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#5Sigh. It was to be expected that regulation intended to shield users from big tech harm is twisted to instead have one giant attack another.
is twisted to instead have one giant attack another
..for the purposes of invading user privacy no less.
Can't have iMessage out there free from Google Ads can we? And we certainly wouldn't want all those iMessage users to not have the pleasure of having their data sold to info brokers? That's a human right isn't it? /s
These tech firms are just wayy too powerful. It's like if you take one down, the others say, "Awesome!!!", and they start selling the data that we've now legally obliged the first tech firm to give them access to.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#6Sigh. It was to be expected that regulation intended to shield users from big tech harm is twisted to instead have one giant attack another.
It's working just as intended. If one big company points out that another big company is breaking the law and is willing to fight to prove it, I'm all for it.
Breaking the law?
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#7I really don't get what is it that people like so much about iMessage that they use it instead of WhatsApp or even Telegram or Signal. I really don't get it.
Can anyone explain what is it that is so good that you end up using a solution that 40% in the USA and 60% in the rest of the world cannot use?
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#8So this is not about forcing Apple to make clients for competing platforms, but to allow businesses to send spam to more users? Well, thanks Google.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's working just as intended. If one big company points out that another big company is breaking the law and is willing to fight to prove it, I'm all for it.
Breaking the law?
”They’re not allowing our spam on your phones!”
I get so much SMS and email spam. I get so little iMessage spam. If getting green texts from Android users is the price I have to pay, so be it.
Re: Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act
#10Sigh. It was to be expected that regulation intended to shield users from big tech harm is twisted to instead have one giant attack another.
is twisted to instead have one giant attack another ..for the purposes of invading user privacy no less. Can't have iMessage out there free from Google Ads can we? And we certainly wouldn't want all those iMessage users to not have the pleasure of having their data sold to info brokers? That's a human right isn't it? /s These tech firms are just wayy too powerful. It's like if you take one down, the others say, "Awes…
I don't understand how opening iMessage would sell existing iMessage data to anyone?
Today, if an iPhone user sends a message to an Android user, that message is sent via SMS. If Google wanted, it could already scrape the message. What would change if the protocol was open and the message was sent to the Android device using iMessage?
There is no expectation for Apple to give Google read/write access to the iMessage database (not that it exists, but still). What is the downside of users being able to interoperate and use the protocol?