soulfirethewolf

My hope for XMPP is that new and better clients emerge than the ones that already exist. Matrix has this same problem as well.

‘Matrix-based’ is now specified as a requirement in massive public and private sector tenders

I'm pretty sure that most people beyond the tech field know what Matrix is. At least not by name

Does it creatitity?

My only problem with XMPP (and a lot of other federated protocols) is really the lack of quality clients. Most of them (especially on systems beyond Android and Linux) don't really have that good of a UX, or their UI is kind of bland or dated.

It's something that I hope gets improved eventually. Because having a variety of choices doesn't mean much if none of the choices feel particularly good.

Hopefully you'd be able to do so from the Microsoft store

Well yeah it's not. But it's the first time something like this has been integrated onto an personal consumer device.

My problem with that is that a lot of them then insist on using an outdated standard that lacks encryption and high resolution media instead of just downloading something like WhatsApp, Signal, or Matrix.

I'm still curious if this is even legal. It seems like a really good idea, but is Apple going to be able to sue over it? I almost feel like it could be covered under the reverse engineering clause, because it is meant to enable interoperability with another product. But Apple's terms of service already seem really hamstrung on what is and is not allowed. With the macOS SLA beginning with:

For use on Apple-branded Systems

Obviously iMessage isn't macOS, and I can't seem to find a specific terms of service for iMessage specifically, but it is running on it. Which is what would make this integration possible. So what makes me wonder if Apple's lawyers could find a clause there.

Lol the wording and design of it all. Subscribe to use without ads, picture of a credit card. Versus Use for free with ads, picture of a shooting star:

Discover products and brands through personalized ads, while using your Facebook account for free.

Plus the little "your current experience" highlighted in green. And finally "use for free" highlighted in blue.

They really want you to go with the second option so they can try to prove to the court that people want free stuff. When most of them were likely unconsciously coerced into it.

The only reason I use Gmail at this point is because it's the only Android email client that has an actually nice, modern looking UI, other apps like K9 mail don't really look as nice as it.

It's annoying how they try to integrate Google chat into the app as well.

As if Mozilla isn't paid millions by Google