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Not to mention Google Talk was a chat system first and foremost. Hangouts is a funnel to get you to use their browser (still don't understand why it ships as a

Not to mention Google Talk was a chat system first and foremost. Hangouts is a funnel to get you to use their browser (still don't understand why it ships as a plugin) and social network first, chat application second.

untog 11y ago
> still don't understand why it ships as a plugin I always assumed it was because it would be cross-platform by default. Making native apps for Hangouts on Windows, OS X and Linux would be pretty time consuming. Also not sure what you mean by "social network", it looks a lot like a chat app to me.
- oselhn 11y ago
  Or you can use open protocol and let community to do the work for free.
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- xeromal 11y ago
  Hangouts was a big part of Google+. I'm pretty sure Obama did a "hangout" on Google+ back in the day.
cookiecaper 11y ago
The plugin is not required if you use Chrome.