The European Union has set out to limit the market power of large digital platforms with its new Digital Markets Act (DMA). This new regulation is about to change the applications of our daily lives as we know them. WhatsApp is precisely about to apply important changes as reported by WABetaInfo.
And sending a message from Telegram or Signal to a contact that we have in another messaging app like WhatsApp will be possible if the new legislation is applied. And it is that This interoperability between applications is going to be a requirement of European regulations Non-compliance with which will result in significant sanctions for companies. Specifically, these can reach up to 20% of your global business volume in the event of receiving repeated notices.
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Sending messages between different applications will be possible in Europe
Due to this obligation imposed by the European Commission, WhatsApp is going to begin testing this Chat interoperability with other homologous applications. And although the company has not published any schedule with the dates they manage to implement this feature, WABetaInfo has reported that WhatsApp update 2.23.19.8 for Android shows signs of these tests.
In the screenshot that has been shared with this information you can clearly see how A new section appears called ‘third party chats’. The problem is that today this is a section that is empty and that still needs to be developed by Meta. What is clear is that the company has 6 months to comply with this principle of interoperability between services.
And the applications of the companies that act as ‘guardians’ of this new regulation are going to be forced to open their platform to other third-party applications that have less impact. In this way, the EU tries to ensure that all users are not only in an application such as WhatsApp, which moves the vast majority of users. Although the big question that arises is whether this is something that will only remain in Europe, which is where it is required, or if it will reach all the countries where WhatsApp operates.
But what seems more than clear is that in a few months we will be able to see how WhatsApp users will be able to send messages to users who are on Telegram, Signal or any other app. without having to open an account in the Meta service. This will mean that if we are convinced by the functions that Telegram has or its policy, we will not be forced to use WhatsApp because our contact only uses that app.
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