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fosk on July 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Twitter could have been

Abstraction is the right answer. Just send a message, and let the application layer figure out the right transport to make it readable on the final device.

lloeki on July 2, 2012 [–]

That may be the Messages.app (on iOS and even more on Mac) plan. I sure wish iMessage and BBM were made interoperable via some well-defined bridge standard.

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