EinatYahav@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoApple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled offarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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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
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