Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest tech IPO

Re:Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest te... by Taniwha on Thursday July 14, 2016 @06:32PM (#12097697)

Too many chat apps ....

My son is in japan, I have to load line on my phone. I sometimes work in China, I have WeChat. Hangouts for text messages. Work uses Zoom. Another group I hang out with have settled on Slack ....

I want just one

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Re:Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest te... by J_Darnley on Thursday July 14, 2016 @07:52PM (#12098101)

Email. A federated protocol that can send messages regardless of the other person's host.

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Re:Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest te... by TeMPOraL on Friday July 15, 2016 @08:52AM (#12100586)

> Too many chat apps

Indeed. I only learned about LINE today and it's apparently "2016's largest tech IPO"...

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Re:Understanding Line, the chat app behind 2016’s largest te... by inthaiguy on Friday July 15, 2016 @01:56AM (#12099184)

Meh, I have all those and more, and I don't really feel it's painful switching between them.

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