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As a rabbit trail/pet peeve, I think there needs to be _some_ standard in this space. It is silly to me that iMessage/SMS/Google Talk/Facetime/etc. can't all j
by shireboy 4y ago
As a rabbit trail/pet peeve, I think there needs to be _some_ standard in this space. It is silly to me that iMessage/SMS/Google Talk/Facetime/etc. can't all just interop on some open standard. I understand there are marketing forces pushing against it, but we do it for email, why not chat & talk? Totally ridiculous that I have to think "is this friend using Android or iOS?" when I text or call them. Even worse for group texts, plus means that windows/linux users can't easily message through their iphone. I haven't dove into it, but XMPP seems like a good candidate.
- kristianc 4y agoA common mistake tech people make is assuming that things that bother them must also bother a large number of other people enough to incur sizeable switching costs to solve it.
- number6 4y agoNah, the other people are just wrong.
- zaik 4y agoXMPP is already a RFC Internet Standard. It's just that getting federation, interoperability and backwards compatibility is much harder than inventing your own new thing + users gain the freedom to move to a different provider (without loosing all your contacts).