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Very nice post, however, I recall a bit differently... "I might be wrong, but I've always attributed this primarily to Apple." RIM and BBM had a four year hea

Very nice post, however, I recall a bit differently... "I might be wrong, but I've always attributed this primarily to Apple." RIM and BBM had a four year head start on Apple messaging. Unless Apple had a pre-mobile messaging protcol that I am unaware of. Even so, BBM was the hotness back then and people were lining up to buy a Blackberry just so they could use its exclusive messaging service.

riffraff 7y ago
my feeling was that Skype killed all other IMs. It solved the need for chats while also allowing calls. The fact it's still not totally erased after a decade of worsening is a testament to its original status. EDIT: And popular chat clients like pidgin did not support skype, so you had to have skype + pidgin/adium or whatever. And then at some point you just drop one..