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The four horsemen of shitty chat apps
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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There was a glorious time where I had a single messaging app on my PC with Facebook Messenger contacts, Google Chat contacts, friends using Jabber specifically, and contacts on an IM popular in my country (think MSN).
All together in a single app.
Believe it or not, Windows Phone 7 had that in 2010-2011, right into the OS itself. They integrated it on a per-contact level too, you just clicked on say Craig and had a drop-down to switch which service to message Craig on, but it was a single message history that integrated all the services. It was a damn good mobile OS, way ahead of the curve, easy on resources, slick animations, had UI/UX consistency, accessibility like putting all menus at the bottom of the screen so you can reach them with your thumb, including the damn browser address bar (which only now made it to Edge). But of course, being Microsoft, they fudged it horribly and it died a slow painful death while the head of Windows Phone kept denying it was dead like a damn cult leader.
I too, am a widow of Windows Phone.
Web OS had that all the way back on the original Palm Pre too. One messaging app that included SMS/MMS, Google Chat, AIM, facebook, Yahoo!, etc. It was a beautiful phone and I miss it almost as much as I miss Windows Phone.
Amazing. Yeah, I heard good things about the Palm Pre.
Pidgin is still around, I got teams, discord and element on it.
I had something similar, I don't recall everything it supported, but AIM was a thing then, lol.
Pidgin, some client on Linux. That was a long time ago.