The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
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The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
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Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#2The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is now in force. Here's a breakdown of what that means.
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#3I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy.
Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#4I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy. Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?
XMPP and Matrix already have WhatsApp bridges, though through they are not officially supported or accepted by WhatsApp.
Hopefully what will change now is that such bridges can be updated to use officially-supported methods, which (if WhatsApp play nice) means they will be more reliable and user-friendly than they are today.
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#5I didn't know about the "free of charge" clause. Apple's Core Technology Fee will be absolutely destroyed.
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#6Rumors have it that Apple won't remove home screen web apps in iOS 17.4 after all, but I don't trust them. Did anybody install 17.4 already? Are home screen web apps still there?
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#7I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy. Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?
XMPP and Matrix already have WhatsApp bridges, though through they are not officially supported or accepted by WhatsApp. Hopefully what will change now is that such bridges can be updated to use officially-supported methods, which (if WhatsApp play nice) means they will be more reliable and user-friendly than they are today.
Isn't the bigger issue that these bridges require you still to have a whatsapp account? So it's just a different frontend, but you're still bound by Meta's TOS, PP and data collection.
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#8I didn't know about the "free of charge" clause. Apple's Core Technology Fee will be absolutely destroyed.
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Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#9I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy. Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?
Re: The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
#10I didn't know about the "free of charge" clause. Apple's Core Technology Fee will be absolutely destroyed.
I would love to see the EU swiftly put down the law and make an example of Apple in this case. I'm sure it won't take too many 10% of global revenue-fines before they get in line.