My own conspiracy theory is that these times match up where they adopt some form of widespread XMPP. Google Talk, iMessage (2012), MS Messenger, etc... and alig

My own conspiracy theory is that these times match up where they adopt some form of widespread XMPP. Google Talk, iMessage (2012), MS Messenger, etc... and aligns with the recent talk of re-doing encryption in federated XMPP: https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto XMPP isn't just for chat, it's for video, server to server message passing, status updates, etc...