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>Whatsapp has won messaging, text and instant. What will Twitter and Skype do? Seriously? Operating a centralized walled garden does not satisfy any definitio

by riffic 14y ago

>Whatsapp has won messaging, text and instant. What will Twitter and Skype do? Seriously? Operating a centralized walled garden does not satisfy any definition of won messaging when you consider the architecture of the internet. Nobody has won instant messaging until they all interoperate on the same capacity that email is interoperable, defined by an RFC.

jiggy2011 14y ago
I hadn't even heard of Whatsapp until I saw it mentioned here.
perlgeek 14y ago
That line made me wonder if the whole article was a parody. I'm still not sure.
danielstudds 14y ago
A standard defined by an RFC will be a win for consumers, not sure if it'll be a win for companies though. If whatsapp can create a monopoly and make money from it, that's a win for them.
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- riffic 14y ago
  We should be focused on wins for technology. This site is after all called Hacker News, not startup of the week entrepreneur news