This is going to make it difficult for small startups to compete.
This only applies to companies with a market capitalization of at least 75 billion euro.
New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other platforms
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#12This would be great for consumers but not so great for Apple and Facebook. They want people into their locked down walled garden.
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#13This is going to make it difficult for small startups to compete.
On the contrary it is literally the only way to beat the big platforms that already have a billion users.
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#14I miss the days when I could fire up Pidgin (or Gaim when I started using it) and instantly connect to every IM service I ever needed. Hopefully this is a step back towards that.
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#15This is going to make it difficult for small startups to compete.
Since right now it's so easy to compete with WhatsApp?
On the contrary, the whole point of this law is to make it not just easy, but even possible for alternative messaging providers to compete.
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#16So no more security , innovation and progress for EU? Everything including encryption usage and data transfer will be decide by old fat bureaucrats. Forgot to add a pop up window about transferring message to different country and your own 1 billion eurofiats to them.
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#17This would basically kill WhatsApp on iOS. Which is fine by me.
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#18I miss the days when I could fire up Pidgin (or Gaim when I started using it) and instantly connect to every IM service I ever needed. Hopefully this is a step back towards that.
Same here. That's why I paid to use beeper. It's amazing to have all my chats in one app again. (Not affiliated just love the experience)
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#19Just force monopolistic/abusive/anti-competitive companies to expose API's ; it's not a stretch; they did it for banks (psd2) and it's great for consumers and companies alike. Do it for everything; open systems make the world better. And they can still be monetized; it's not like forcing everyone to open source everything.
Edit: more subtle choice of words to indicate what I meant
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#20Why did we as consumers accept this?
I remember back when MSN/Windows Live Messenger used to be one of the most popular options out there. Even though I used Ubuntu, I could still chat with my friends through the Pidgin messenger. This was all possible through the XMPP interface, which still exists by the way.
It's not just that these new messaging platforms are adding no extra value, they are creating worse experiences, and we're buying into it. You now have to install half a dozen messaging apps just to keep up (WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, etc.) . And now we're suddenly talking about reinventing the wheel.