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Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage::iMessage serves should be regulated under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google and a group of major European telcos has told the European Commission.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steve Jobs in his announcement of FaceTime back in 2010 said it was gonna be open-source. That never happened.

They wanted it to work with a peer to peer protocol, but then got sued by a company I can't remember, so they instead relied on relay servers.

Sure, you could use FaceTime on Android and Windows (and I guess Linux and FreeBSD), but you have to visit a specific website and have an invite link from someone who has an Apple device. Not very open-source if you ask me.

Walled gardens make money, and add frustration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FaceTime on other platforms is like a year or 2 old feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know. It's actually two years old.