Google now tries getting EU to force open iMessage

Google has been trying to get Apple to let it in to iMessage for years, but sees a new opportunity through the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.

Apple’s iMessage is on a billion active devices, and Google’s messaging systems are not. At heart, that’s why Google has asked Apple to open up iMessages, then alternately mocked and begged it over adding support for a rival RCS system — which doesn’t work, and Google itself doesn’t fully support.

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