One app to rule them all: WhatsApp will be able to send messages to other messaging programs
September 12, 2023
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Probably everyone is familiar with this inconvenient need to register in one or another messenger just for the sake of a business chat or condominium chat. Even worse
Probably everyone is familiar with this inconvenient need to register in one or another messenger just for the sake of a business chat or condominium chat. Even worse is writing a few messages once a month to a person who no longer uses anything. Maybe soon everything will change and we will be able to correspond with users of other messengers without having to install them all. For example, it will be possible to write messages from WhatsApp to Telegram, Signal or Viber and vice versa. Provided, of course, that everyone agrees to comply with the new EU rules.
What is known
Future regulation is aimed only at Internet giants:
Alphabet (Google),
apple,
Amazon,
meta,
ByteDance, owner of TikTok,
Microsoft,
SAMSUNG.
The basic principle of the DMA is that companies should not be allowed to prioritize their own services and must ensure interoperability with third parties. The “Digital Markets Act” aims to eliminate the monopoly of applications and services (not only messengers) that push competitors out of the market and hinder the development of small players. While Apple’s iMessage struggles to find a way around the new requirements, saying its messenger is too small and unpopular to fall under the law, Meta has reportedly begun testing the new feature on WhatsApp for Android. It was detected in the V2.23.19.8 update code.
As WABetaInfo writes, the new feature adds: Special section “Third party chats” for cross-platform dialogues. The page is currently blank so you can’t see what it will look like yet. However, this already shows that work in this direction is ongoing.
In the face of such news, a natural question about encryption may arise. The fact is that different programs support different types of encryption, and some do not have it at all. It is not yet clear how this will be achieved. Companies will likely need to work with each other to ensure keys are transferred between platforms.
Overall, there are still too few details to draw a conclusion about this. We can only say this for sure From March 2024 Meta should enable WhatsApp to work with other third-party messaging apps like Signal and Telegram. This will allow users of these applications to communicate with people via WhatsApp even if they do not have a WhatsApp account; However, it is claimed that WhatsApp users can disable this option.
John Wilkes is a seasoned journalist and author at Div Bracket. He specializes in covering trending news across a wide range of topics, from politics to entertainment and everything in between.