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.
  • el_bhm@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Whatsapp? What year is this? 2015?

    edit: get some real problems yall

    • Aram855@feddit.cl
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      1 year ago

      WhatsApp is easily the most used chat app outside the US and has never gone away. I live in South America and it’s HUGE here, specially since IPhones didn’t caught on down here, so we don’t use whatever app the US public uses.

      • punseye@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        whatsapp is huuuge in India too, literally default messasing and calling app

    • Alonely0 🦀@mastodon.social
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      1 year ago

      @el_bhm @floppy you americans are making a fool of yourselves in these threads, there are tons of comments about whatsapp being old or only for drug dealers & sex workers, and it’s so funny how out of touch with the world outside of your borders y’all are. In basically any other place of the world; universal messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram, or WeChat are the de facto standard.