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minus-squareGregorTacTac@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoCan’t apple do something good for a change and adopt Matrix?
minus-squarefilister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoNot going to happen. How do you think they became 2.000.000.000.000 + company? D finitely by not letting their customers off the hook.
minus-squareGregorTacTac@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoThey might earn some respect from people who use android, and they might buy an iPhone
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoYou joke, but Matrix has been working on protocol design specifically for the Digital Markets Act. If iMessage were to be ruled subject to the DMA, it might mean Apple having to interoperate with (a future version of) Matrix. https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3345-opening-up-communication-silos-with-matrix-2-0-and-the-eu-digital-markets-act/ (The DMA part of that talk starts at 25:00.)
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI don’t like Matrix, but that’d be an improvement. (It supports bridging anyway, so one could use an XMPP-Matrix bridge and a Matrix-crapland bridge simultaneously)
minus-squareGregorTacTac@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoWhat’s wrong with Matrix?
minus-squareGregorTacTac@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoYESSSS! Let’s hope apple does have to adopt this, it would be so helpful when communicating with apple users
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoApple has announced they are adding RCS support.
minus-squareGregorTacTac@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoRCS is not an open standard and is partially owned by Google.
Can’t apple do something good for a change and adopt Matrix?
Not going to happen. How do you think they became 2.000.000.000.000 + company? D finitely by not letting their customers off the hook.
They might earn some respect from people who use android, and they might buy an iPhone
You joke, but Matrix has been working on protocol design specifically for the Digital Markets Act. If iMessage were to be ruled subject to the DMA, it might mean Apple having to interoperate with (a future version of) Matrix.
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3345-opening-up-communication-silos-with-matrix-2-0-and-the-eu-digital-markets-act/
(The DMA part of that talk starts at 25:00.)
I don’t like Matrix, but that’d be an improvement.
(It supports bridging anyway, so one could use an XMPP-Matrix bridge and a Matrix-crapland bridge simultaneously)
What’s wrong with Matrix?
YESSSS! Let’s hope apple does have to adopt this, it would be so helpful when communicating with apple users
Apple has announced they are adding RCS support.
RCS is not an open standard and is partially owned by Google.