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It seems to be a bit of an internet meme, but as another poster noted, the original logic seems to have been lost, and it's now simply cool to quote the meme.

It seems to be a bit of an internet meme, but as another poster noted, the original logic seems to have been lost, and it's now simply cool to quote the meme. You say plenty of Google services have been killed - and you cite 3. But only 1 of those has actually been killed. Google Reader was shutdown - this is somewhat personal, as I was a bit lover of Google Reader as well. However, there was 12 months of notice for the deprecation, there were provisions for migration/exporting all your data - and there were reasons mentioned at the time for why it was deprecated. Basically, the writing was on the wall for RSS for a long time before that. Hangouts wasn't discontinued...in fact, I use it as my main chat application currently (both in my personal life, and at work). GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls).

inferiorhuman 9y ago
> GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls). How's that XMPP federation coming along?
dingo_bat 9y ago
> the original logic seems to have been lost I don't know, Google reader is still not up. What logic is lost? > Hangouts wasn't discontinued It is abandoned, which is worse than dicontinued. No new features, some features have been removed. Apparently it's "enterprise" focused now. > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements Wrong. Read up about this tiny thing called federation. Hangouts is a small, walled-garden subset of gtalk. And even hangouts is deprecated now (at least for consumers). Now if you're a consumer and want to use a google service for chat, you have allo. Allo is a dumbed down subset of hangouts. No multi-device support, no web app, no voice, no sms integration, no video. It has stickers though. Guess some people are fine with that. I'm not.

inferiorhuman 9y ago

> GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls). How's that XMPP federation coming along?

dingo_bat 9y ago

> the original logic seems to have been lost I don't know, Google reader is still not up. What logic is lost? > Hangouts wasn't discontinued It is abandoned, which is worse than dicontinued. No new features, some features have been removed. Apparently it's "enterprise" focused now. > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements Wrong. Read up about this tiny thing called federation. Hangouts is a small, walled-garden subset of gtalk. And even hangouts is deprecated now (at least for consumers). Now if you're a consumer and want to use a google service for chat, you have allo. Allo is a dumbed down subset of hangouts. No multi-device support, no web app, no voice, no sms integration, no video. It has stickers though. Guess some people are fine with that. I'm not.