alt Hacker NewsExciting news! Can't wait for iMessage to open up too. Any idea if this (or other future messengers) will work outside of Europe too or does WhatsApp use some kind of geofencing, like Apple, to prevent non-EU citizens from enjoying the same rights too?
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thevillagechief • yesterday at 7:38 PM
iMessage will not be opening up. They lobbied hard in the EU and got an exemption for not being popular enough there I guess.
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But iMessage is already open? You can send an SMS to any number and it shows in iMessage, completely interoperable through that standard protocol.
Whatsapp on the other hand does not show SMS messages (Which is a design choice that makes sense from a security perspective I guess, not saying it's wrong.)