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It was a real sad day when Facebook and Google decided that proprietary was the way to go...
by digi_owl 10y ago
It was a real sad day when Facebook and Google decided that proprietary was the way to go...
- ariwilson 10y agoThe writing was on the wall before that, though. WhatsApp was eating everyone's lunch and Facebook / Google wanted to move faster and own the messaging space.
- bigbugbag 10y agoAfaik facebook was designed to be a closed walled garden from the get go and never offered interoperability despite using xmpp at first. Google gtalk predates facebook and happened at different times, IIRC the change to a closed chat service was a reaction due to facebook abusing the openness to scrape contacts.