Microsoft's Edge browser, Bing search, and ad business also avoid regulations.
    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      maybe…

      but hat could take many years to spin up another massive lawsuit like this, and, by then, Apple could possibly have profited kajillions, and/or have modified their communications protocols just sufficiently to skirt regulations. or one of a dozen other legal maneuvers around this or a number of other possible future regulations…

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I try not to predict the future. it took them a long time to get here. I they’e going to loop back around, I can’t see it happening again soon.

            • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              It’s not about the explosive growth (or not) of iMessage. It’s a matter of fact about the legal foothold that Apple now holds. That won’t be dislodged anytime soon. Whether or not Apple can get any market growth moving forward, now the EU will have to re-file any efforts to this ruling to them in the future should they try. That is a big deal. And nothing anyone in trying in the EU will move forward anything near the weight this attempt did. 

      • Zworf@beehaw.org
        2·
        9 months ago

        Also, iMessage will become even more irrelevant now because the other platforms like WhatsApp will be forced to interoperate. By not being part of this “hive”, iMessage will become even less appealing than the others.