<story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&amp;#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&amp;#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&amp;#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&amp;#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdfghswe</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t care about any features, apart from the features you care about. Just like everyone else.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&amp;#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&amp;#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&amp;#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&amp;#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>The solution I use to minimise this is Element One (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;element.io&amp;#x2F;element-one&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;element.io&amp;#x2F;element-one&lt;/a&gt;). This is a paid for service that operates bridges from Matrix to Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. I then get to communicate with all those contacts in one place (I&amp;#x27;m on Android so iMessage not a problem).&lt;p&gt;I signed up the moment it came out and they had some teething reliability problems for a while, but it&amp;#x27;s been great for months now. Element is a much better web client than any of the others and it&amp;#x27;s nice to not have to worry about which computer or platform I&amp;#x27;m on when I want to write a message.</text></comment>