{"id":182754,"date":"2010-01-14T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8476611680696170036"},"modified":"2010-01-14T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:12:16","slug":"who-killed-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182754","title":{"rendered":"Who killed Instant Messaging?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I know the smell of a dying solution<\/a>, and IM<\/a>‘s got it bad. It’s not dead yet<\/a>, but it’s got seven tentacles in the grave.<\/div>\n
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I came late to IM<\/a>, so I’ve only now realized why the party is so quiet. I started with Beejive<\/a> on my iPhone as an SMS alternative<\/a>. It worked fairly well, though I ran into server disconnect and message delay problems. Then I started using it with Google Talk at work. There I ran into issues with messages going to one client or the other but not always both.<\/div>\n
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It wasn’t until I started looking at multi-account desktop XP clients, however, that I realized how bad things were<\/a>. That’s where I found cr*pware bearing unwanted toolbars, neglected and buggy open source solutions, walled gardens from AOL and Microsoft, and web apps that want my google credentials (good luck with that<\/i><\/a>).<\/div>\n
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Yee-uch. I know that smell!<\/div>\n
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So if IM is dead or dying, who held the knife?<\/div>\n
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I’m guessing it was a combination of Twitter, SMS\/texting bundles, the mobile migration, the unflinching stupidity of Yahoo\/AOL\/Microsoft\/Skype (basically everyone but Google), the non-multitasking iPhone and, above all, the complete absence of any plausible revenue stream [1].<\/div>\n
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IM, I barely knew ya<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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[1] So why are there pretty-good IM clients on the iPhone? Hint<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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