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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To integrate all messengering apps together you’d have to have a common area that delegates what message goes to what platform to what username, this could be a daunting task, but also whose going to pay for it? These apps are already closed so they have one way of operating.
if suddenly you want Whatsapp to send a message to kik, they now have to add in another parameter for what app is sending where, to who from who, new security tokens for shooting messages across this middleware, and work together to store messages across two different databases to have a chat log, which could be another nightmare in itself. There’s probably more I’m missing but those are the glaring issues I see.
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