Apple allegedly argues iMessage not a gatekeeper service in EU
appleinsider.com
With just days to go before the European Union's Digital Markets Act designates gatekeepers, Apple is allegedly arguing iMessage isn't popular enough to be classified as a gatekeeper service.
  • Onse@lemmy.ml
    45·
    1 year ago

    tbf, Apple‘s iMessage dominance is mostly a US based phenomenon. In European countries, many people use WhatsApp and telegram. Anecdotal evidence: I don’t know anybody using iMessage.

    • fer0n@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Same, I don’t know anyone using iMessage and I’m deep into Apple circles.

    • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      People in each country used whatever everyone else is using. In the US that became text/iMessage. This was partially driven by the way cell companies charged in the US with free texts but limits on data (iMessage uses data, but it came later).

      In other countries the better at the time options won out. We talk to our friends in Europe and Africa with WhatsApp.

    • Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s not quite what I see in France. Many people use Whatsapp to text friends/family when they’re abroad. But everyday, I mostly see classic SMS texts (or iMessage)