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As long as iMessage doesn't support federation, Apple has a monopoly on it too. If not, then Ma Bell wouldn't have had a monopoly either, since you could say mailing letters was a competitor to telephones.

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And here you are, posting on a site with a monopoly on HN comments.

That's nonsensical. Reddit has a monopoly on Reddit - of course it does.

Any service online is under no obligation to allow for widespread interpoperation - that would be madness.

> Any service online is under no obligation to allow for widespread interpoperation - that would be madness.

Lol, "madness". The Digital Services Act in the EU would like a word.

Although the final determination is not yet locked in, the word is that Bing and iMessage have been found to not be popular enough in the EU to fall under the DMA.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-ime...

You can see full list of current decisions here without paywall:

https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers

You are confusing with Digital Markets Act.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en

It's madness for monopolistic communications providers to refuse interoperability.

iMessage is far from monopolistic.

Messages on iPhone is interoperable with any other mobile device - it supports SMS!

> it supports SMS!

and isn't RCS support coming too?

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