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> These apps are free to download Yes but you aren’t truly free to choose which app you download. You have to use the one being used by the people you want to
by afavour 3y ago
> These apps are free to download
Yes but you aren’t truly free to choose which app you download. You have to use the one being used by the people you want to message. That is of strong benefit to incumbents.
- doctorpangloss 3y agoHas there been meaningful innovation in messaging? I had free AIM on $3 T-Zones in 2006. So I see no downsides to just forcing interoperability.
- myaccountonhn 3y agoMany add a bunch of bloat that I simply do not want. It'd be nice to have a chat app that only do chat.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoMeta and Apple are paying for far more bandwidth than what AIM was moving around back then. Very high quality videos, audio, pictures, and gifs not to mention files and group video calls.
- catlikesshrimp 3y agoTheir will. I'm perfectly fine receiving full quality media as files, I don't need meta to reformat my media to reduce their bandwidth bill and train their model, they could redirect me to the original file if I am using another messaging app.
- concinds 3y ago> you aren’t truly free to choose which app you download. You have to use the one Singular? You'd just use whichever app a given person is on (everyone here has 3+ chat apps installed). Wouldn't network effects only kick in when group chats are involved?
- AAAAaccountAAAA 3y agoYes, and failing that, you could simply revert to plain old SMS. IMO, a better course of action would have been forcing Whatsapp to provide an alternative way to access their group chats. Or alternatively, forcing all phones and carriers to support RCS as a condition for certification, and funding the development of a quality FOSS RCS client.