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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by onethought on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:31AM (#38579895)
What is the meaningful innovation in messaging that happened elsewhere?
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by dzikimarian on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:03AM (#38581627)
It didn't happen anywhere. Yet IM vendors (not only Apple) still pretend we need propertiary protocol to transport a few bytes of unicode. It should be standardized long time ago.
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by flkenosad on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:36AM (#38581803)
Is there an existing open standard that works just like iMessage?
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access by tristan957 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:22AM (#38582606)
You mean E2EE chat? Yes. There are even federated protocols.
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