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you are only enabling marketers and spammers.

No user will ever use this in the way you are advertising here.

I may be missing something; I'm jumping at the bits to use something like this, and I'm quite the opposite of spammer - I'm just a nerd with heterogeneous family and friends who refuse to all magically switch to my recommended and obviously superior chat app :P

chomping at the bit**

champing at the bit** :P

that's my point. for every one ultra power user who will have a dedicated root IOS device just to bridge all that, there will be thousands of spammers doing it for a profit.

The only solution to IM fragmentation is decent interoperable clients. But looking at the past, that is the way to kill the ecosystem too.

You won't.

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