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iPhone users’ blue text bubbles under threat in EU

By Christopher Hutton
Published November 8, 2023 4:32pm ET
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iPhone users’ blue text bubbles under threat in EU
FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2012 photo, Chinese people line up to enter a newly-opened Apple Store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing. A Chinese court has ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to eight Chinese writers and two companies who say unlicensed copies of their work were distributed through Apple's online store. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 that Apple violated the writers' copyrights by allowing applications containing their work to be distributed through its App Store, according to an official who answered the phone at the court and said he was the judge in the case. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) | Andy Wong

Google and major European mobile carriers are attempting to use new European Union digital laws to force Apple to share its iMessage blue bubbles with Android devices.

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