Apple's iMessage might be about to get a Digital Markets Act reprieve according to a new report. The European Commission is in the middle of a five-month consultation designed to try and figure out whether iMessage is used widely enough to designate it a 'gatekeeper,' a move that would allow the EC to force Apple to do some things it really doesn't want to do — like make iMessage interoperable with competing services like WhatsApp.
For its part, WhatsApp is already in the process of opening its doors to competing platforms as Meta deals with its own European problems. But Apple sees iMessage as a key part of the iPhone's list of features and benefits, and it doesn't want to bring it to other platforms. By opening iMessage up, Apple would open the door to iMessage on Android in a way that is currently simply not possible no matter how much companies like Nothing and Bleeper trying to hack their way to making that the case.
