Comment by JumpCrisscross
2 years ago
> only someone would release a universal protocol
Nobody wants this. Universal access means universal access for spammers. iMessage won over SMS because of cost and spam filtering.
2 years ago
> only someone would release a universal protocol
Nobody wants this. Universal access means universal access for spammers. iMessage won over SMS because of cost and spam filtering.
> Nobody wants this.
Not nobody.
> iMessage won over SMS because of cost and spam filtering.
Really? I've never used imessage.
> Not nobody
Within the scope of messaging network effects, nobody.
> Really?
Yes. iMessage spam is rare and stamped out fast. Open protocols tend to have spam problems the moment they begin scaling.