[HN Gopher] Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsA...
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Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and
Messenger users
Author : mrkramer
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-09-06 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| > _In 2025, Meta will roll out group functionality for third-
| party chats, and, in 2027, it'll launch voice and video calling
| in accordance with the DMA._
|
| Well, that's a timeline!
|
| Ideally this would help boost popularity & adoption, that
| whomever can make the best ability to integrate will see great
| rewards.
| neves wrote:
| It looks like the long time line is to give them time to plan a
| terrible user experience for third-party messages. They don't
| want to risk it becoming something useful
| catlikesshrimp wrote:
| >"Plus, Meta requires that companies sign an agreement -- the
| details of which haven't been made public -- to integrate with
| any of its systems"
|
| It was too good to be true. Signal compatibility might not happen
| without wrecking security with non-whatsapp chats
| sebtron wrote:
| IMO this is likely to invalidates the whole thing. This NDA
| might entail paying a billion dollar fee monthly to Meta, for
| all we know (unlilely). Or allowing Meta to read all of their
| users messages (very likely).
| bastawhiz wrote:
| I doubt Signal would integrate. It would be a cold day in hell
| before Meta implements Signal's E2EE protocol. And Signal
| removed SMS support, so I think unless they had full E2EE
| they'd simply pass on integrating.
| xmprt wrote:
| Looks like a way to take some market share from iMessage. I don't
| think this is going to change much for international markets
| where a lot of people already use Whatsapp but it might change
| things in the US.
| mrkramer wrote:
| >I don't think this is going to change much for international
| markets where a lot of people already use Whatsapp but it might
| change things in the US.
|
| I think this is only EU thing but we will see what happens. It
| seems like Zuck is starting to experiment with interop more and
| more hence Threads supports fediverse and now he gave in to the
| EU regarding interop with other chat apps.
| melenaboija wrote:
| Holly cannoli it seems to me Meta is seeing some ruling against
| them and their omnipresence in messaging and social network
| spaces.
| rnhmjoj wrote:
| > Meta requires that companies sign an agreement -- the details
| of which haven't been made public -- to integrate with any of its
| systems.
|
| What sort of agreement, an NDA type of agreement? Is this ruling
| out open source software? I wonder what the EU thinks about this.
| bastawhiz wrote:
| I expect it's mostly uncontentious stuff:
|
| - Don't give access to other third party apps (don't act as a
| proxy)
|
| - Manage spam
|
| - Don't overload or reverse engineer [their] systems with the
| keys you're given
|
| - Take care of adapting to API changes and doing upgrades in a
| timely manner
|
| - Treat messages from Meta with a reciprocal amount of
| diligence
|
| Of course they might have nefarious language in there, but I
| would think they'd think twice before doing that _for a product
| meant to appease regulators_.
| maxrmk wrote:
| Can't wait for all the spam calls I'll get.
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