iMessage is at the heart of the debate in various parliaments around the world, and this because it is exclusive to Apple. While we learned last week that it would not beultimately not affected by the new European directives, the native messaging application for iPhone will have to open its services in China.
The apple company announced this news in November, butdid not provide further information regarding the reasons for this announcement. However, we now know the probable reasons which pushed her to take this measure, thanks to John Gruber, an American writer, blogger and software designer.
After investigating the subject for several months, he gives us today the information he found on this subject, in a paper published on his blogDaring Fireball.
Not the right target my general
Since the establishment ofits new guidelines, the European Union is criticized from all sides, to the point that a provision that it did not initiatewas assigned to him:support for the RCS standard by the iPhone. As a reminder, this is the standard used by the devicesAndroidwhich replaces traditional SMS by offering a more complete service, similar to iMessage.
In his blog post, John Gruber states:
I can't say for sure, but after spending the last few months poking around — I have some good news for fans of coercive government regulation. Apple's hand has effectively been forced. But by China, not by the EU.
Google and Samsung too
It's not just China that has pushed Apple to take chargeRCS. Firstly, it isGoogle, creator of the standard, who asked Apple to please support his standard. Cupertino had not taken this into account, however, andTim Cook even advisedto usersAndroid “to buy an iPhone”.Samsungalso made an advertising campaign via a YouTube video to ask Apple tosupport green bubbles.
Ultimately, Apple would have given in to the pressure, but neither that ofl'UE, nor that ofGoogle, nor that ofSamsung. Tim Cook and his teams, on the other hand, gave in to China. THERCSshould therefore soon be supported on iOS by the end of 2024, in iOS 18.
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