{"id":483,"date":"2018-03-11T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2018-03-11T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:56:42","slug":"why-do-people-still-use-email-because-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Why do people still use email?  Because it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to IM someone.  Do I use Messenger?  Sorry, Apple only.  How about Allo?  Android only.  Hangouts?  Works everywhere, but most people haven&#8217;t got it.  Skype?  Same, and many people who use to use it have uninstalled it.  Text message? Talk about lowest common denominator: (maybe) no photos, &#8230;  I want to video-chat. Even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Why do tech companies constantly reinvent this stuff in incompatible ways?  I just got a message from Slack (which I use because I have to, for work) saying their XMPP gateway will be taken down soon, because their system is better.  Couldn&#8217;t they just make XMPP better?  Couldn&#8217;t everyone make XMPP better, so we could all use the client of our choice and still talk to one another?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if AT&#038;T had done this with phones.  Or Philips with audio cassette tape.  Or cars with gas tank fittings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to IM someone. Do I use Messenger? Sorry, Apple only. How about Allo? Android only. Hangouts? Works everywhere, but most people haven&#8217;t got it. Skype? Same, and many people who use to use it have uninstalled it. Text message? Talk about lowest common denominator: (maybe) no photos, &#8230; I want to video-chat. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}