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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

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The EU's Digital Market Act prohibits Apple and other tech giants from favoring their own systems.

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

The long fight to make Apple's iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union's Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that "gatekeepers" not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google's parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.

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