Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps?

guest · Mar 19, 2019

Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps?
Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger. Why do we need so many apps to do one thing?
March 19, 2019
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zma735/why-do-we-need-so-many-different-messaging-apps

Sending a message to a friend is now an exercise in mental gymnastics: that one friend doesn’t use iMessage, but will reply if I send a WhatsApp. Another friend has WhatsApp, but never replies there, so I have to use Telegram. Others are available on Signal, SMS, Facebook Messenger and everything else, all at once.

There’s thousands of reasons we ended up here, but messaging apps have become the ultimate walled garden: nobody plays nice with each other, and you can’t message between tools because each uses its own proprietary technology.

[...] in January, The New York Times reported that the company is working to unify Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp into a single backend [...] It would also be a big target: putting messaging in a single place means attackers only need to break into one to see everything about you, and any of the apps a potential way in.
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