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I get it and it may be true in this case that Apple can too easily pull the plug, adversarial interoperability has a long history: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
by jowea 3y ago
I get it and it may be true in this case that Apple can too easily pull the plug, adversarial interoperability has a long history: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interopera...
- ianlevesque 3y agoThe messaging space also had the amazing Adium client during the last round of messaging wars, and less amazing Trillian as reverse engineered clients distributed or sold. I for one am excited to see this space heating back up.
- selykg 3y agoTrillian used to be amazing. It is up there in my memory as about as life changing as Winamp was for me personally.
- joshmanders 3y agoI remember being jealous I couldn't use Trillian because I didn't have a way to pay for it. Running AIM, ICQ and MSN all at the same time.
- selykg 3y agoAh man, it was glorious. I was really just in awe at how I could talk to all my various friends in one app, regardless of which platform they were on. Such a great app. I recently went to the webpage for the app and see it's sort of a shell of its former self and is some sort of business tool now. Kind of a bummer, but such fond memories of how amazing it was back in the peak of the various instant messaging tools, before unlimited text messaging was an affordable option.
- panzi 3y agoAnd Miranda and Kopete and more. Might have used them all at some point.