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>But it would have been so easy to extend AIM and MSN Messenger to the mobile realm and carry along their hundreds of millions of users. It was easy but no one
by nemothekid 11y ago
>But it would have been so easy to extend AIM and MSN Messenger to the mobile realm and carry along their hundreds of millions of users.
It was easy but no one did it. The only mobile device that did chat really well was the Sidekick. I owned one just because you could AIM/MSN on the go. However, (SMS) texting was so much easier and ubiquitous. For me, it went AIM -> SMS -> iMessage.
In any case, by the time smartphones became mainstream enough where to have a chat experience that was something other than $PROTOCOL wrapped on top of SMS, the majority had already moved onto SMS.