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Unless those official clients have features not available in the all-in-one client. Like encryption, which this one apparently lacks.
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Unless those official clients have features not available in the all-in-one client. Like encryption, which this one apparently lacks.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoThe benefit of an all-in-one client is that they can port/shim/polyfill[0] missing features between the backing platforms. -- [0] - Whatever is the most appropriate webdev word of the day.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoAnd the downside of an all-in-one client is that they are going to have to port/shim/polyfill features from a hostile, proprietary, changing API. Once again, the problem is not technical, it's political. Until interoperability is enforced by government, I expect companies to keep building their siloes. Network effect and tragic commons and all that.