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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by thaumasiotes on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:06AM (#11795791)
So was AIM, though. That didn't stop the third party clients.
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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by smcnally on Sunday May 29, 2016 @05:24PM (#11798306)
AOL worked actively to stop third-party AIM clients in the same ways as mentioned above from icq through WhatsApp -- changing protocols and central auth mechanisms.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/aol.vsms.idg/index...

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/24/business/fi-59086

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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by thaumasiotes on Sunday May 29, 2016 @05:55PM (#11798414)
Right, the point is "whatsapp is hostile to third-party clients" makes no sense as an explanation of why we don't have third-party clients for whatsapp, because all third-party clients for everything have had to deal with hostility from the first party.
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