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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by AshamedCaptain on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:20PM (#35003482)
> If you ever tried to use OMEMO from two different clients at once, you know what I'm talking about.

No, I don't. OMEMO practically's only benefit is fixing that one usecase.

By the way, iMessage is XMPP. Whatsapp is XMPP. Just artificially closed. Long etc.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by asmor on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:00AM (#35008970)
> By the way, iMessage is XMPP. Whatsapp is XMPP. Just artificially closed. Long etc.

I've heard these rumors, but they don't seem to be true. WhatsApp seems to have moved on a long time ago (to a binary format wrapped in an implementation of the noise protocol framework) and I find zero indication iMessage was ever XMPP.

But that's besides the point. XMPP is great for a uniform ecosystem (in fact, a lot of XEPs are some company standardizing their use-case), but awful if you allow federation and third party clients.

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