&gt; We&#x27;ve seen something like this before, when AIM allowed MSN Messenger to interoperate. I know this is a little different, but that was still how AIM lost.<p>Lost? AIM was the dominant IM platform in the US until the late 00s&#x2F;early 10s when mobile and cloud-based services took over. First SMS&#x2F;MMS and then platforms like Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and Skype.<p>The only place MSN was dominant was third-world countries like Brazil.