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Non-iPhone users can be singled out by the green text bubble.
  • Google signed a letter to the EU asking for iMessage to be made a "core platform service."
  • Under the bloc's Digital Markets Act, that would require Apple to make it compatible with other phones.
  • The green text bubble currently singles out non-iPhone users.

Google and several telecom companies are asking European regulators to require that Apple's iMessage is made compatible with other phones, the Financial Times reported.

That could make the green text bubbles, which single out non-iPhone users a thing of the past.