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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by goatinaboat on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:58AM (#26437130)
As someone who has never owned a Blackberry, can you explain what this means?

BlackBerry funnelled everything - email, BBM, tweets, Facebook messages, whatever - into a unified interface. Basically you didn’t need to care where a message came from, you saw it all in one place and could just reply from there. You would not need to check one app for email, another for IMs, another for tweets etc.

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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by gorgonzolachz on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:15AM (#26437329)
Isn't this just notification center? I don't think you can reply to say, a slack message from it, but most services have some form of notification support that will redirect you to the proper app context
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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by goatinaboat on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:25AM (#26437444)
I don't think you can reply to say, a slack message from it

I think Slack post-dates BlackBerry but you could definitely reply to e.g. a FB message from within it. BB wrote and maintained their own FB connector to facilitate it, FB never shipped a BB app.

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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by drcongo on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:10PM (#26438025)
Yeah, this is the other thing I'm baffled about here. My iPhone is my unified notification inbox and I can do all of those things right from the lock screen. I definitely never have to visit sites to check notifications.
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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by jdsully on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:10PM (#26439610)
The point is you didn't need to be redirected.
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