You Chose Poorly 7 - Instant Messaging
Sawyer has ten messaging apps. Mikey has nine. Most everyone with a smartphone has at least five. How is this the new normal?
Also, Mikey has a new phone, and Sawyer’s apartment is burning.
What Sawyer is currently using:
- iMessage/SMS
- Facebook Messenger
- Google Hangouts
- Slack
- Miitomo
- Skype
- Tumblr
What Mikey is currently using:
- Line
- Viber
- Facebook Messenger
- iMessage/SMS
- Slack
Show notes:
- Never mind, I’ll find someone like you
- Wiki: Instant Messaging
- Wiki: Comparison of instant messaging clients
- What’s the Deal with All These Messaging Apps?
- Screw Texting. It’s Time to Pick a Universal Messaging App
- Trillian & Adium
- Franz
- Snowball: all your chat apps in one place on Android
- Popularity of messaging apps continues to skyrocket
- The State of Messaging Apps, in 5 Charts
- The end of apps is here. Long live chat bots
- XKCD: Standards