Neat that the continuing lineage of the original client is still on today’s app stores, though re-thought a bit in 2020: ”Mail.ru Group developed the ICQ New m

Neat that the continuing lineage of the original client is still on today’s app stores, though re-thought a bit in 2020: ”Mail.ru Group developed the ICQ New messenger based on the original ICQ, the company told Kommersant. It has been available in application stores since April 6 and is installed by updating the existing messenger.” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icq-messenger-video-calling/id302707408 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icq-messenger-video-calling/id... I think it just hit version 10.0 from mail.ru team. Surprised the article references version 10 back in 2019, as the version on my iPad is 9.9 from 24 Dec 2020, and the pending update is version 10. Maybe desktop and mobile versions differ? As the article notes, client was launched in 1996 from Mirabilis, an Israeli company, AOL bought the client in 1998, and then mail.ru bought it in 2010. On mobile, they relaunched as “ICQ New” at version 9.0.1 in spring 2020.