"One of the saddest stories of vendor lock-in is the story of messaging." #xmpp #whatsapp
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lessons-vendor-lock-messaging
"Messaging isn't complicated. We solved this more than a decade ago."
"You have five incompatible messaging apps on your phone not from technical limitations, but because greed drives companies to ignore compatibility and optimize for vendor lock-in."
@hinterwaeldler I think an important point against the article was left out: jingle and video chat. That was a big one with the growth of high bandwidth connections. XMPP just did not work well, and to this day there is not a single XMPP client on Android with good Jingle support. The only one that ever came close was Jitsi. Why mess with Jabber when I can use Skype? People like open standards whether they know it or not, but they like things that work seamlessly even more.
@mister_monster You have a point here, I don't even have a proper opinion on jitsi/jingle, because it never was on my radar.