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> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard. Except for the vendor lock-in, which makes this a problem to begin with. Other service
by disintegore 7y ago
> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard.
Except for the vendor lock-in, which makes this a problem to begin with. Other services work on a majority of devices.
- jdjdjjsjs 7y agoThen your complaint is about Apple locking iMessage to Apple devices. Which is a legitimate complaint especially since Apple had said they would be opening it up (or was that FaceTime...I'm not sure). But that's a wholly different complaint from the fact that Apple, like nearly every other messaging service, does not allow you to export groups to other services.
- damnyou 7y agoIt's not "wholly different"! It's distinct but deeply related.
- duskwuff 7y agoApple was going to make the peer-to-peer video call technology they were using for FaceTime public. Then they got sued by VirnetX over a patent related to that technology, so they had to rework the service to run through a central server. With that change, there was no longer anything worth open-sourcing.
- int_19h 7y agoIt's open and federated protocol, not open source, that everybody else wants from them.