[the_third_wave]

Those are features of the client - which I would mostly want to switch off, I loathe the Fisher-Price/Anime love child interface style this indicates. The question is what, other than platform standardisation, make this better than any of the alternative messaging protocols? Under the hood, that is. What does it have over e.g. XMPP+OMEMO, Matrix, Signal, Telegram, etc. Had e.g. XMPP+OMEMO been the standard on Android in the way that iMessage is on Apple-things, which one would have been "better"? I think they would have been more or less comparable with XMPP having the advantage of being standardised.