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These messaging apps are worse than... well, I don't know. This is as bad as it gets. Bicycles maybe? Incompatibility, fragmentation.. the worst thing you can h
by rplnt 11y ago
These messaging apps are worse than... well, I don't know. This is as bad as it gets. Bicycles maybe? Incompatibility, fragmentation.. the worst thing you can have for application that is supposed to be used for communication.
- yoavm 11y agoAt least Telegram has an API and a documented protocol... It could have been a lot better, but WhatsApp is a reminder that it could have a lot worse too.
- distances 11y agoMessaging apps are worse than bicycles? Sure, but to be fair, almost everything is worse than bicycles.
- rplnt 11y agoBicycles are pretty bad when it comes to dozens of incompatible standards for each part.
- rmc 11y agoThere has always been fragmentation with messaging apps. In the 90s/00s it was MSN and Yahoo and IRQ etc etc
- rplnt 11y agoDepends... in eastern-ish Europe it was ICQ only. That was kind of fine. What I don't get is why mobile carriers still charge for SMS. They could have all deployed their own SMS apps with ads/premium where you could write messages for free. Some did that, but rather badly I think. They just let that market go.
- amyjess 11y agoIn the 00s, we had multi-IM clients like Trillian, Gaim/Pidgin/libpurple, Kopete, Telepathy, etc. Now, there's so little work done in reverse-engineering IM protocols. It's really sad. Part of this is because Sean Egan got hired by Google to work on Hangouts, so he's out of the reverse-engineering game for good, and it's sad that nobody took up the mantle from him.