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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember Steve Jobs stating on stage that the protocol will be opened up when iMessage was revealed. Apparently this statement surprised the developers of it, because they didn’t know anything about that (based on some rumors).

Then that statement was silently ignored.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was FaceTime, not iMessage. The reason the developers were surprised was that they didn’t own the tech, and Apple lost a patent lawsuit about it and almost had to remove FaceTime entirely. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114 https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/apple-s-facetime-open-standard-never-happened

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you're right, I misremembered.

[–] IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

But first you remembered.