I was surprised too, but it works, minus offline messages. (I am using it right now). Do you really think Facebook ever needed the market share from XMPP? I&#x27;ve always assumed that Apple and Facebook only support XMPP because they use it internally (engineers being engineers...)<p>&gt; And Apple gets pretty much zero kudos from me for client XMPP support.<p>I guess we have different expectations. Apple is a company that sells me client hardware&#x2F;software. I use Mail to connect to standard IMAP servers, I use Messages to connect to a standard XMPP server and Facebook. You can apparently even buy Apple&#x27;s XMPP server through the Server app on the App Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Messages_Server" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Messages_Server</a>
The one thing they don&#x27;t offer is a single, centralised XMPP server. That&#x27;s not really an active attack on the standard, though.<p>Anyway, I live in a completely different filter bubble than you and your sibling poster - XMPP never had any momentum at all around me, so I can&#x27;t really speculate on how it died.