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Re:About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store by kaba0 on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:50PM (#25038181)
It’s not a desire, it is a must. There are certain kinds of application that simply would be meaningless, if they could not target 50% of the population. Like what would a messenger clone do with only half the people? (And I am fairly sure, that if nothing else, financially most apps or app ideas are in this category)

We agree on your last point, an open platform should finally emerge (and it is pretty much happening with pinephone) - but it would be a fairy tale to believe that it can gain foothold in the recent future against these monster corps

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Re:About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store by zepto on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:56PM (#25039138)
There are plenty of messenger apps that don’t have 50% of the US population.

iMessage is one of them, as is Facebook messenger.

There are many other messengers with far smaller user bases. There is no reason at all that a messaging app needs to address 50% of the population immediately.

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