#27 Interoperability As a Word People Understand: The BirdyChat Experience w/ Rolands Mesters

In this episode, Rolands Mesters, CEO of BirdyChat, discusses the development of BirdyChat, a European professional messaging app that interoperates with Meta's WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). He shares insights on regulatory impacts, technical challenges, user feedback, and future prospects of interoperability in messaging services.BirdyChat is available on both Android and iOS, available for download here: https://www.birdy.chat/. In the conversation, we touched upon a few regulatory developments. Click directly on them through the following links:- The open banking EU regulation, PSD2 Regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32015L2366&qid=1653045761540&from=EN. - The promise of open banking back in 2022: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9781800612204_0002?srsltid=AfmBOopz3kCnUvauWcIVoSTB9SoW2PXJLHtlk8nmgrjAoA5eVP_YoP3f. - Meta's Reference Offer relating to its compliance with Article 7 DMA: https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability/. - The European Commission's materials available on its website: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/developer-portal_en.