Interoperability is one of the key facets of the DMA. It requires messaging and social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Apple’s iMessage to allow exchanges with other smaller apps like Signal. Once the regulation is applicable, companies will be given a timeframe between three months and four years to enable interoperability, The Verge reported last week. This should be able to burst iMessage’s green bubble finally. The most evident change for European consumers will be that they will no longer be required to use a platform simply because it is the most popular. “Citizens don’t necessarily join the service because they think it’s the best but because it is the most used and where they find most of their friends or business partners,” Marcel Kolaja, a Czech Member of the European Parliament (MEP), said during a press conference (via WIRED).
The DMA also prohibits self-imposing behavior from companies like Google and Apple that force users on their mobile operating systems to use their own apps by default instead of giving them an upfront choice between the available options. Furthermore, users will possess the right to uninstall any preloaded software from their smartphones, laptops, and other devices.
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