PeachPie 🍑WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech.
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Lvxferre [he/him]Question: will this interoperability only apply to Europeans? As in, will WhatsApp keep some artificial barrier elsewhere?
I’m asking this because I’m in Brazil. And I desperately want to ditch WhatsApp, but here this would be social suicide, given almost everybody here assumes you have WhatsApp.
signal (at least for now) seems somewhat safe
Yes, and that’s what I’m using. Or trying to - people flat out refuse ditching WA because everyone else is using it. That’s why I’m hoping the barrier won’t be lifted just for Europeans.
It won’t be interoperable with anything people use, making it only theoretically interoperable. Wake me up once I can use it with Jami or Matrix.
Should be open to every chat app that adopts a certain protocol, so it’s odd that it’s only those two. Maybe they’re chosen because nobody uses them, and it makes it a good test.
I doubt it. Most likely complying without complying. Then they dont put their monopoly in jeopardy. If people found out they could use any other app to communicate with WhatsApp users, then WhatsApp would have to actually compete on features and not “use it because everybody else does”.
Being able to check off the box of interoperability without actually interoperating with a competitor is just a trick in my eyes. I hope the EU commission sees it that way too. Given how they want to placate the US though and the concessions they have been making, I won’t hold my breath.
Yeah I agree, I’m just hoping they won’t drag it out too much.