Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything Else on Their Phone

Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by dllthomas on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:35PM (#13347523)

You have this. It's called XMPP, and it's supported by well more than 10 different messaging apps on each major platform.

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Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by JustSomeNobody on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:06PM (#13347619)

The operative word was "popular". The world uses Whatsapp and iMessages and not XMPP.

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Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by dllthomas on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:50PM (#13347781)

I wouldn't call XMPP "unpopular". But my real point ran a little deeper. That's the world we've consistently moved away from - interoperability seems to be treated as a bug, not a feature.

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Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by peterschroeder on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:07PM (#13347834)

> (And no, this hasn't happened yet with XMPP. XMPP has, for a variety of reasons completely failed. We need to let it die and start from scratch with something actually designed with mobile devices in mind)

I think we all agree with that.

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Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by peterschroeder on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:15PM (#13347650)

We're solving for the people who use WhatsApp and iMessage.

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Re:Messaging Is the One Thing People Do More Than Anything E... by peterschroeder on Saturday January 07, 2017 @07:38PM (#13347531)

I'll have to check it out! Thanks for sharing. :)

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