Remember interoperability?

Peter Rukavina

Remember back in the day when there was interoperability between messaging platforms? When the hope was held out that we would all be able to seamlessly chat, with a single app, a single account, with anyone, just like we can send and receive email with anyone, regardless of how and where they manage their email.

Remember?

Now I have this:

The many messaging apps running on my desktop all the time.

Skype, Slack, Teams, Android Messages, Telegram, Zoom, Signal. Oh, and email.

I have all the same apps running on my phone too.

Where did we go wrong?

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Submitted by Steven Garrity on

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This video by Tom Scott is a relevant look at the decline (and problems with) open APIs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

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