Agreed with most of the points in the article. Google Talk was minimalistic, but that was the whole point of it. And it was in a point of time where Google actu

Agreed with most of the points in the article. Google Talk was minimalistic, but that was the whole point of it. And it was in a point of time where Google actually tried to use an open protocol which was interoperable and extendable. I could use Google Talk in Pidgin along will all my other IM accounts within the same client, and I also could use some plugins like OTR to encrypt my conversation if I needed to. Now we're forced to use the Hangouts client which frankly isn't very good, and everyone else is also trying to lock everyone in their platform by putting interoperability on ice. XMPP is still a good protocol, but no one seems to care :(