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Re:Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) by twostorytower on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:07PM (#16701939)
AIM could have become Whatsapp if it was smart.
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Re:Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) by niftich on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:39PM (#16702686)
AIM was available as an app on iOS App Store's launch day on July 11, 2008. But push notifications for the iOS Platform didn't arrive until June 2009, so it was cumbersome -- daresay awful: messages only arrived when it was in the foreground [1].

Within a few months of push notifications first being available, WhatsApp was released for iOS, in November 2009.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/1135141/aim_review.html

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Re:Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) by wil421 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:09PM (#16701958)
Absolutely. The same things I liked about AIM are the same things I like about iMessage and what’s app.

As another person pointed out, I can send the message to the people I want not followers.

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