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Except people at one point realized that IE is shit and switched to better alternatives. I don't see this happening with WhatsApp - everyone and their great grandfather uses it and all other messengers are niche occurrences
In the EU, Microsoft also got forced to tell people about alternative browsers. Maybe the DMA will be WhatsApp's equivalent.
And then what? Networking effect is why Whatsapp is used. What's the point of using a superior chatting app if no one I know uses it?
Reading the links provided would have answered your question.
Provisions for ensuring a higher degree of data portability, interoperability, and access to data for the platform's business and end-users.
There is some discussion on if this means that 3rd party apps can develop for chat platforms, and it seems so at face value. eg, gaim/pidgin or trillian can make a come-back and you can use whatever client you want to access the Whatsapp platform. Nothing would then stop an app from natively integrating whatsapps apis alongside their own.
Yeah, I'm not naive enough to assume Facebook would open up their walled garden.
But they will be forced to.
sigh
Reading the links provided would have stopped you from writing this comment.
including fines of up to 10% of the worldwide turnover.
No company is going to risk losing 10% of all their total monies for non-compliance.
Facebook is estimated to make 116.6 billion US dollars per year. They will not give up 11.7 billion dollars every year as a fine.
Oh my sweet summer child. You're underestimating Facebook's capability to use shady tactics to keep the users on their platform even if such law is passed.
Weird, I don't know anybody that uses WhatsApp.
Are you American by any chance?