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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by webworker on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:23PM (#35002938)
> It's like you don't believe it's possible with the countless man centuries of resources these companies have to have software both interoperate and degrade gracefully when one client doesn't support all protocol features. I don't buy it; I believe we can.

Did you ever look into what happened with XMPP extensions?

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by dcow on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:05PM (#35003358)
Yeah Google killed XMPP because they just had to have a better proprietary protocol and now look where that got us... nowhere. To your point though, I believe Apple and Google 100% staffed and capable of implementing robust support for extensions. The problem with this historically is that it's one off devs and hobbyist projects that have tried to support this stuff. I don't think it's fair to draw conclusions from that. Look at the web and Chrome and what Google can do when they actually put their weight behind something (imagine if they had done for XMPP). Look at Apple and Google and WebAuthN. WebAuthN has optional extensions. It's completely do-able.
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