With XMPP and federated messaging servers they would have at least working infrastructure within their country.
But ...
What exactly happened that XMPP lost on mobile phones? What did they do wrong? XMPP was there before smartphones came, had working clients, and had (for that time) pretty decent encryption.
While I understand that big players like WhatsApp want to bind all users to their own infrastructure, I don't understand why even the niche instant messangers go through the burden of creating their own infrastructure (or relying on Google's) instead of just concentrating on the client side to provide better XMPP clients.
Is XMPP so bad that nobody wants to do that? If so, why?
But ...
What exactly happened that XMPP lost on mobile phones? What did they do wrong? XMPP was there before smartphones came, had working clients, and had (for that time) pretty decent encryption.
While I understand that big players like WhatsApp want to bind all users to their own infrastructure, I don't understand why even the niche instant messangers go through the burden of creating their own infrastructure (or relying on Google's) instead of just concentrating on the client side to provide better XMPP clients.
Is XMPP so bad that nobody wants to do that? If so, why?