I support the fact that messaging should be interoperable and accessible by any client application. I want applications like Beeper to succeed because I’m tota

I support the fact that messaging should be interoperable and accessible by any client application. I want applications like Beeper to succeed because I’m totally fed up to be forced to use 3 or 4 messaging applications. I’m fed up to not be able to join Messenger groups because I don’t trust Meta enough to install their app. Instant messaging is now all about being forced to use the official client to be able to use the network. In fact, IM is in a worst state than 15 years ago. That’s stupid. I don’t want Apple to be allowed to keep it exclusive, as much as I don’t want Telegram, Signal, Facebook, WhatsApp … to force me to install their apps just to be allowed to join my friend’s group. I’m fed up by the fact that in 2023, you have to follow the rules of whatever corporation to join your friends group because corporations have actively fought against standardized protocols. Even Google is just faking it with their homemade implementation of RCS. That’s stupid, we should have had some chat equivalent to emails since at least two decades (hello XMPP/Jabber, nice try) and we are here discussing about the exclusivity of iMessage. In an alternative universe we are laughing about the uselessness of an exclusive IM like we would laugh if Apple tried to implement its own exclusive email protocol. That’s stupid and very sad.