Why we can send emails from gmail to yahoo or outlook but cannot do the same with instant messaging apps like WhatsApp to Messenger or iMessage?
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Basically, because email was designed to be multiplatform when it was made. Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook – They’re all email providers. All email uses the same language, or at least easily translatable language to your email provider of choice.
Messenging apps are not quite the same. For one, they don’t all use the same backbone – When email was made, it was general “email.” These providers built themselves around “email” and thus became able to speak the same language. Messaging apps did not – They each started with their provider, and built themselves as the provider needed them to – Thus, the language used to build them is not the same.
This is essentially the same as Windows vs. Mac. Both are computers, but neither run on the same backbone, so they are not compatible. But both use browsers and both access the internet – They built the language into themselves to be capable of reading internet language. They just both have different languages and convert differently.
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