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"Of the so-called big-five tech companies in the US, Amazon is the only one without a messaging platform." https://chime.aws/

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Amazon owns Curse which is a messaging platform.

Amazon has a messaging "platform" now. Alexa. [1]

[1]https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16713667011

Does Apple have a messenger that can support both messages and video? They have Messages and FaceTime but they are separate apps and only if you have an apple device

isn't twitch also some kind of video-message platform

Chime is for video. Slack is for text.

Chime is for both, it's just not very good at text.

Then slack is for both, because it has video.

But it's not really. It's primarily focused around text, and chime is around videos and meetings. That's the use case. Chime is built around meetings. Slack is built around chat.

This is not true. We use Chime for text every day. It doesn't have all the 3rd party integrations that Slack does, but it give you the same basic functionality.

Disclaimer: Work for AWS.

I use Chime in CDO ;)

Chime is definitely better than Lync, but I stand by my statement that it's not very good at text. It's missing basic UI features like threading or merged comments, profile pictures/icons, not to mention more advanced integrations.

I love using it for meetings... but text functionality is still lagging behind Slack, or even Mattermost (also used within Amzn)

It's definitely true. My team also uses Chime for text every day. The client has virtually no options, even basic formatting stuff that has been available on dozens of IRC clients for decades.

Disclaimer: Also work for AWS.

You mean it's not very good at emojis, bot integration, and other fun features that exist with other platforms.

How do you figure?

Chime's main use is video. Slack's main use is text/chat. While both have components of the other, they are optimized for different primary use cases. Pretending otherwise is silly.

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