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I dream of a service which I can use to send a message to a contact. It knows if that contact is on WhatsApp, Telegram etc. (or plain old SMS) and chooses the b
by fredley 9y ago
I dream of a service which I can use to send a message to a contact. It knows if that contact is on WhatsApp, Telegram etc. (or plain old SMS) and chooses the best option for that contact automatically. It merges the inbound messages from any of those apps I have so they're all in one place.
I no longer have to use all [n] chat apps installed on my phone just because for each of them, there are a few people only contactable via that particular app.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoThis is the one thing that Blackberry got right - unified messaging. All messaging apps could feed into the system messages app, you'd see it all in one place and could read/reply/etc regardless of what app was actually doing the messaging. From what I could see it worked really well.
- ecshafer 9y agoThis was a solved problem back in the day. Pidgin was a desktop application that let you put aim, msn, yahoo, or whatever chat you wanted together. You had one list and you messaged people on there. It was the same regardless of what platform they were on. It was great.
- glenneroo 9y agoThe Windows equivalent was Trillian, which even had IRC support.
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- nvarsj 9y agoIt's pretty hilarious, this has been a solved problem many times. But there doesn't seem to be much money in unifying chat systems, all the money is in making new proprietary ones.
- Analemma_ 9y agoWindows Phone used to do this and it was fantastic, Requiescat in Pace.