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.
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.<p>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: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631748">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631748</a><p>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.