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Someone will build it. But it still just adds another proprietary API to the arsenal. Ugh.

I echo other sentiments here: what exactly is broken about XMPP that companies keep moving away?

Somebody already said it: while using the chat through a different client than their web chat, you're not looking at their ads, you're not installing their proprietary mobile app, and so on.

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