Par Daniel Gultsch, le développeur de l’excellent logiciel ►https://conversations.im
The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016
►https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
#XMPP is not suited for #mobile_devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own #proprietary instant #messaging solution. But it also gained some popularity through a blog post entitled The (Sad) State of #Mobile XMPP in 2014 by Georg Lukas. While Georg wasn’t wrong with his status report per se, it is important to understand that he describes a temporary problem. There was a brief period of time where XMPP actually had some catching up to do. XMPP was fine before, when we had different requirements—In fact I was using an XMPP client on my Nokia E71 back in 2008 (That’s more than two years before #WhatsApp was even invented)—and it’s fine now in 2016.
Why should I care?
There is #Signal, there is Whatsapp, there is Slack. Why should I even bother to use XMPP? Well there are two kind of answers. The political kind and the personal one.