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The question I have, as do most of my colleagues, is that if you have a data connection why not just send an email? Rather than installing yet another app and h
by dingaling 11y ago
The question I have, as do most of my colleagues, is that if you have a data connection why not just send an email? Rather than installing yet another app and having to encourage people to adopt it.
- slazaro 11y agoThe difference between email and IM is pretty big in terms of interactivity, threading, etc.
- ejolto 11y agoThere is this strange social pressure about writing email in a formal manner e.g. Dear, X Best regards, Y This in addition to emails forcing you to come up with subject header for every conversation makes writing emails in a casual setting feel weird and wrong imo.
- DominikR 11y agoTry building an email client that supports presence (online/offline/busy/custom state), subscriptions, group chat with different admin levels (owner, admin, member ...), message receipt and read notifications, chat state notifications (composing, active, inactive ..), VoIP including video chat (XMPP Jingle), public chat rooms, buddy lists, and many other features that I didn't list. Surely someone can model it on top of email too, but the effort would be enormous and it would be proprietary. XMPP on the other hand is a standardized protocol that supports all of this with great library support on many platforms and that's why most chat clients today use this protocol.