I haven't used a BlackBerry but I think the reason that's possible is because BlackBerry has some kind of rich notification api where all the app can hook into

I haven't used a BlackBerry but I think the reason that's possible is because BlackBerry has some kind of rich notification api where all the app can hook into it? or it's a pull based where the app has a local api where BlackBerry OS can pull the messge via local app and show in there. Either way, I think to achieve this, we need an open platform. I'm not saying open source, but I think we have to have an easy way to access to our data. Can I curl gmail to get my email. nope. Can I curl facebook to get my message. nope. I like Telegram because I can literally just curl it to fetch my message. I think about this a lot and apparently go and build my own email platform[1] which you can literally just do this: curl https://api.hanami.run/v1/mails https://api.hanami.run/v1/mails and get a nice JSON mail. Once all the platform has an easy API like that, I imagined we will see many 3rd client to create a unification UI for all kind of content. https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ is a client that unify slack+discord. We're far from perfect but I think first steps for anyone building a chat service or an email platform is to have a very easy and user-friendly API to access their own data. Similarly the https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/ protocol is very promising and if enopugh people adopt that protocol we may have that dream come true, as long as anything speak that protocol, we can hook it up to our chat app. --- https://hanami.run https://hanami.run