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Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more.

The new EU regulations force sweeping changes on some of the world’s most widely used tech products, including Apple’s app store, Google search and messaging platforms, including Meta’s WhatsApp. And they mark a turning point in a global effort by regulators to bring tech giants to heel after years of allegations that the companies harmed competition and left consumers worse off.

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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 50 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Users of messaging apps such as Signal or Viber, meanwhile, could soon be able to send chat messages directly to people who use Meta’s Messenger and WhatsApp platforms

Signal and Threema have already announced that they have no plans doing that.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (8 children)

A nice as it would be to have, I don't get how the messaging interoperability is going to work in practice. The different platforms have many technical differences between them at the backend, and also mismatched user facing feature sets. Ironing all of the that out into some sort of common ground is going to be difficult, especially without it being very janky.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is kicked into the long grass eventually.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 8 months ago

They all have the capability to support a UI where you type a message, hit send, and the message is delivered. This proves it's possible to make and support an interface that hides all the backend complexity. If they don't expose the same functionality through an API, it's because they don't want to, not because it's too hard.

I'm sure there will be some features that aren't fully supported across messaging platforms, but for basic use cases like sending a text or an image, there's really no excuse.

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