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That is such a niche want lol. Like it’s giving 2010 windows phone 7 vibes 😂🤣
I would never want all my messaging apps combined together. And as we have seen with beeper that is not smart.
Having your messages split up by providers has a distinctly 1996 vibe. Would you like to have your emails split up by provider too?
They’re all functionally the same thing, way easier to deal with them all together in one place.
Email is completely different. We’ve always more or less had emails grouped together. Up intol
My iPhone 15, I still had my gmail and outlook in their respective apps and only used mail for iCloud. Not everything needs to be together. Google is disgusting so I don’t use it anymore and I now use outlook in mail.
Text messaging has always been separate. People do not want all their stuff combined together.
Palm tried to do it with webos.
Microsoft tried to do it with windows phone and windows 8.
Android even tried to do it several times with various phones (the Facebook phone and the early HTC SENSE ui, Motorola did it with Motoblur on android Sonys early android phones use to do it as well).
All these efforts which were LEGIT from the companies and during the peak time where everyone was crazy about social networking and messaging apps. Nobody wanted it then. Nowadays people either have their preferred apps or they are fine with tjem
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People are not going to trust a 3rd party company for this (nor should they)because as we have seen with beeper and sunbird that got hacked it is not reliable or often secure.
I don’t want my messenger mixed with my Instagram dm mixed with my Snapchat mixed with my iMessage. And I argue most ppl wouldn’t either. O use different apps for different reasons and the fact they are separate at least gives me a boundary for each.
This literally only benefits a small niche of users and who like the mini users in the grand scheme of things are not a big enough group to focus on.
And, what allows email from different services to be somewhat “combined” into one app is the fact that it’s not E2E encrypted. Remove that limitation from WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. and they can all be accessed from one app that adheres to whatever that non-E2E standard is.
But nobody except for a very unfortunate vocal minority (See beeper fans) is asking for a uniformed messaging that has all of them.
Especially with my age demographic that would be a nightmare.
For the dev he wanted that so he could have only one client for 15 services to look for texts/messages from everyone.
His rational is in this blog diagram. IMHO thats far beyond from what most of us care to interface with.
For the dev he wanted that so he could have only one client for 15 services to look for texts/messages from everyone.
His rational is in this blog diagram. IMHO thats far beyond from what most of us care to interface with.
I just screamed laughing at this diagram lol.
Honestly, I literally probably talk to on the regular about 200-300 or so people regularly within a week. These are my colleagues, coworkers, family, and associates. I also handle social media/marketing stuff for my job as well as I have the contact information for the beer/liquor reps (i am a bar manager).
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For me, it would be a nightmare to have them all in one from different apps. Sometimes, I want to deal with X app but not Y app. Z app is useful but only sometimes.
As we have seen with Beeper and iMessage, relying on these types of apps is not exactly reliable if they are being shutdown rapidly.
And when these apps/programs update themselves, that means beeper(or beeper like apps) also have to be able to update on the fly to make sure they are streamlined.
It's just a mess
And forcing all apps to be open, i believe limits productivity.Your argument is that it’s different because it’s different.
There’s no good reason to have text messaging separate in the same way there’s no reason to have email separate. You can still filter by app in beeper as you can filter by email address in an email app.
All your other arguments are just problems caused by corporations wanting to keep their portion of the market segregated, not because universal messaging is a bad idea.
Beeper going down and not functioning properly (like it did with iMessage) only will cause these other people headaches because they’d blame WhatsApp or messenger. I’m not relying on some third party app like beeper.
Not to mention, every time these companies update their apps you need to hope beeper is also fast enough with updates.
No not everyone wants a one size fits all nor shoood
We be forced to because I like millions of others don’t want all our messages combined together.
You’re arguing for messages to be where you want them which beeper allows (and you can still separate them by service). So yeah your argument contradicts itself.
It’s the fact you are still trying to argue about an app that is largely irrelevant in 2024. It’s time to let it go.
Beeper wants to put all my services i use into one app (beeeper) and it tried and failed to hijack iMessage to give android users an ability I paid for to have when I brought my iPhone.
I want to keep all messages within their individual services. So no beeper doesn’t do that. The individual services do.
Thanks