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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by m463 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:47PM (#38649637)
apple did the "embrace, extend, extinguish" with this.

the original apple messages app did AOL messenger and others.

then it gradually forced you off of them into imessage.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by jonhohle on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:57PM (#38649709)
The main services iChat supported - AIM and Yahoo Messenger are gone. Google Chat no longer supports XMPP. I don't know anything about Facebook Messenger. Increasingly messaging services became siloed.
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