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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Imagine a world where we can adopt a scalable, secure, open communication protocol where users can use whatever app they want. Imagine humanity moving past the diaspora of special-snowflake chat apps and on to better things.
Move on? Hell you could just move back to xmpp when people were using aim, gtalk, trillian clients, digsby, nimbuzz...
Some of us are old enough to remember the golden era.
Capitalism: “No.”
But I wouldn't earn money, as we are currently forcing people to use our services/products.
But then we wouldn’t have the subtle culture warfare over blue and green messages.
Future generations will never know our pain
We live in this world. We can adopt such a protocol. The hardest step is to convience your friends to install an app that supports it, because duopoly named Googloid and Apple iOS is not going to make it simple.