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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by jonhohle on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:46PM (#38649628)
What type of infrastructure and operations do you think is necessary to handle 8.4B messages per day. So far, the cost of those systems and teams has come from hardware sales. The benefit is that it is effectively a paid for service and doesn't need external support from advertisers or by selling user data.
Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by freedomben on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:56PM (#38649706)
It really depends on what stack you pick and what kind of engineers you have. What's App famously used Erlang (an excellent choice for this) and was able to scale to astronomical levels with a fairly small engineering team and hundreds of instances.
Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by Miner49er on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:52PM (#38649669)
A couple hundred servers, and like 5 engineers.
Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by jonhohle on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:37AM (#38654595)
Minimally that’s a few million dollars per year for KTLO. At least a few million more for ongoing development. Why should it be free for everyone?