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.
If they stay true to their word, they will force them to implement interoperability and not just force them to give some sort of API access.
So if you install WhatsApp their plan is that Meta must provide a seamless experience in talking to every other person even if that person is using e.g. iMessage
A new protocol for the given reason is faster implemented, more secure and better scalable then just trying to do something with existing solutions that were never designed with something like this in mind.
How would that be a feasible solution?
If they stay true to their word, they will force them to implement interoperability and not just force them to give some sort of API access.
So if you install WhatsApp their plan is that Meta must provide a seamless experience in talking to every other person even if that person is using e.g. iMessage
A new protocol for the given reason is faster implemented, more secure and better scalable then just trying to do something with existing solutions that were never designed with something like this in mind.
all of this stuff is just API calls anyway, that’s how the internet operates, none of this is done via an analogue signal transfer