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I remember when Steve Jobs said it would be an open protocol.
by AustinDev 4y ago
I remember when Steve Jobs said it would be an open protocol.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoYou misremember. It was Facetime which Jobs promised Apple would make into an open standard, in 2010. He died the week before Apple released iMessage. "And we're going to take it all the way. We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs, 2010 WWDC Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOxf9tEXEKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOxf9tEXEKQ
- AustinDev 4y agoOh dang. You're right. I misremembered it. Thanks for clarifying so I don't keep repeating it, haha.
- pwinnski 4y agoThat was FaceTime, not iMessage, and FaceTime ran into patent issues which Apple lost in court, repeatedly, and so had to be reengineered in way that made it not work as an open protocol.