Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by filmor on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:43AM (#25856204)

I think part of the problem is that there is no infrastructure for something like this on iOS and Android.

With webOS, there was a single messaging app that integrated SMS, Skype, Facebook and Google. The latter part was implemented using libpurple, so it was relatively easy to extend this to all messaging that libpurple supports.

I really liked that approach (marketing name was "Synergy", unified messaging was only a small part of this), but it's quite obvious that neither Apple nor Google have any interest in adopting this unified approach for anything but their respective own messaging of the day.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by kevincox on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:21AM (#25859739)

I think if we could get the world unified on a single chat protocol we can expect things like this to emerge. Of course it will be unlikely to happen soon, if at all.

Plus we all know that Google really wants to own a chat app so maybe they will decide not to make it first-class in Android i fit seems like a threat.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by acct776 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:02PM (#25863474)

Some big NGOs and world governments are getting on the Matrix train,

and the name is dope, don't count that for 0.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by filmor on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:27AM (#25889564)

Well, it's become quite clear that this unified protocol will never happen :)

I'd rather be prepared to use different protocols in a sensible way.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by acct776 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:01PM (#25863458)

We could always start building on webOS again, it's open now, right?

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by filmor on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:11AM (#25883272)

There are people working on this: https://webos-ports.org

A few years ago I was in contact with someone from the project to integrate the changes that I did, so their messaging client should now support pretty much everything that Pidgin supports (which, as I learned today, nowadays includes Matrix, Signal, Telegram and Steam as well through plugins).

Maybe I should install that on my old Nexus 4 and see how far they got... :)

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