Anybody else see this coming a mile off? This had all the hallmarks of a large corporate trying to enter a random market just for the sake of it.
When I first encountered Chime, my first thought was "Why?". There was no differetiating factor, they had the same features as everybody else, so there was no justification for the product existing. It was just Amazon's lame implementation of the same tool you already use.
Looks like @surge called it back in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631748
I have to imagine AWS reps have been pushing Chime customers to Wickr over the past 3.5 years, and now they're down to their holdouts. Otherwise I'm surprised they wouldn't have just "upgraded" all the Chime customers to Wickr.
Interesting that the SDK is not affected; my understanding is Slack uses it, which is probably enough to cause its continued existence
Anyone know if they’re stopping internal use?
There wasn’t much love for chime while I was there, but I have no idea what a replacement looks like
I had mostly forgotten Chime exists, and I'm guessing most of Amazon's customers had too. The only time I've ever used it was to talk to people working at AWS.