Christopher Hutton is a technology reporter for the Washington Examiner covering Big Tech companies like Facebook and X as well as the regulatory efforts by Washington to rein in the tech companies. He previously wrote for a number of other outlets, including Daily Dot, Pando Daily, Religion Unplugged, and other outlets.
Google and major European mobile carriers are attempting to use new European Union digital laws to force Apple to share its iMessage blue bubbles with Android devices.
The search engine has long pressured Apple to abandon the unique encryption behind iMessage and embrace RCS, Google's preferred DM encoding. The difference in encryption limits functionality between iPhones and Androids as well as colors texts green and blue, a distinction that has held social notoriety for years.Google is now stepping up the effort by urging the EU to crack down on the practice through the Digital Markets Act.
“Consumers today have access to a wide variety of messaging apps, and often use many at once, which reflects how easy it is to switch between them,” Google and the European phone providers Vodafone and Orange argued, according to a letter sent to the European Commission and viewed by the Financial Times. “iMessage is designed and marketed for personal consumer communications, and we look forward to explaining to the commission why iMessage is outside the scope of the DMA.
Google has spent years lobbying against iMessage's encryption, arguing that RCS was the replacement for SMS, the previous texting standard used by most mobile phones. The search engine argues that iMessage limits what users can send over text messages and break most text messaging features.
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