I thought iMessage would totally be designated a gatekeeper status.<p>I guess it's still in investigation, and being fair, it's not as popular a messaging application as it is in the USA where it would absolutely needs to be forced to open up. Just not as bad an issue in Europe I guess.
> Following their designation, gatekeepers now have six months to comply with the full list of do's and don'ts under the DMA, offering more choice and more freedom to end users and business users of the gatekeepers' services.<p>6 months until sideloading on iOS?
What does this mean for Youtube? For Whatsapp and iOS, the implications are known (other app stores and browsers, allowing interop between Whatsapp and other messengers, etc), but what will Youtube have to do to comply with the DMA?
I know the intentions are positive here, but I can't help feeling like this is going to have unintended consequences that make services worse for the majority of us who do not live in the EU, like GDPR did.<p>We have a regulatory body that doesn't prioritize standardizing on a single type of electrical plug now driving digital standards for companies that operate globally.
>[...]Alphabet, Microsoft and Samsung provided sufficiently justified arguments showing that these services do not qualify as gateways for the respective core platform services.<p>The mental gymnastics, corporate/lawyer double speak and lobbying efforts in those argumentations must have been absolutely insane.
These companies didn't even exist 100 years ago and most of the success they have had, are big innovations in their respective areas in last 20 years. Yet now they are designated as some sort of immortal "gatekeepers".