2024-08-14 07:17:47
WhatsApp, under the umbrella of Meta and the new DMA of the European Union, is already working on the interoperability of its messaging platform to allow you to read the messages on the app you use to communicate.
WhatsApp users who opt in could see messages from other apps in a separate section at the top of their inbox.
Nowadays, communication through the applications you have on your mobile has become a total necessity. From iMessage, Telegram to WhatsApp and Signal, these apps keep everyone connected to the world.
However, Each of them works independently, which complicates communication between them.that is, each person can use a specific one, Signal, for example, and can talk to someone else who uses a different one, like WhatsApp.
With this as its basis, WhatsApp has decided to change everything by allowing interoperability with other messaging applications.
After two years of development, the company wants to simplify 21st century communication, allowing users to send messages, share files and make calls from different applications, eliminating the need to use one or the other. Group calls and chats are said to come years later.
The European Union’s DMA has played a key role in this opening of WhatsApp
However, this change has not been driven solely by internal decisions at WhatsApp. Regulatory pressure, especially in Europe, has played a major role in this evolution.
The appointment of Meta, WhatsApp’s parent company, as one of the gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act has played a major role so that the company opens its ecosystem, as happened with Apple and the App Store.
Ultimately, this initiative seeks to create a more open and equitable environment for users, where they have the freedom to choose the messaging app, in this case, that best suits their needs without being limited by restrictions of having to use one or the other.
As WhatsApp slowly prepares to implement interoperability, which, for the moment, is unknown when it will happen – although it is likely to happen in 2024 -, Be careful because it seems that it will not be an easy task.
As explained in The Wiredwill face some technical and logistical problems. Ultimately, this process of integrating different messaging platforms entails the need to guarantee, first, the security and privacy of messages, and, secondly, compatibility between systems that use different protocols and standards.
“There’s a real tension between offering an easy way to offer this interoperability to third parties while also preserving the privacy, security and integrity of WhatsApp,” explains Dick Brouwer, director of engineering at WhatsApp. “I think we’re pretty happy with where we’ve landed,” he adds.
By: COMPUTER TODAY