SUMMARY

  • The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
  • The EU’s Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
  • WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    It’s weird. With every single app having a DM feature years before Whatsapp was even invented, with every single cell phone having email and SMS capabilities, and with a bunch of E2E encrypted apps already in service, why would I want to go back to Facebook’s ecosystem in 2023?

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      When every single person you know uses Whatsapp, you have to use it too. That’s what this law is about. So you can use other apps even if everyone else uses whatsapp

    • heird@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Whatsapp worked on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and even some old ass java phones

      They dominated the market in most countries or were close second to Messenger.

      Now they keep growing and it doesn’t give any chance to smaller better apps, this law makes it possible for you to use only signal but also chat to people that only use Whatsapp