I’m slowing starting to think about what a 10 year anniversary update to my "The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016"¹ would look like.

It’s interesting what parts of the article are still relevant today (mostly how push works and how that impacts battery drain) while other parts are seemingly irrelevant. Yes, #XMPP works on mobile phones. Obviously. That’s how the overwhelming majority (⅔) of users uses XMPP².

¹: gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
²: stats.jabberfr.org/d/000000002…

The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016

An essay about the state of XMPP as a protocol for instant messaging, clearing up common misconceptions about reliabilty, battery-consumption, push and end-to-end encryption.

^gultsch.de