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By "not a good" you mean an open protocol not controlled by Google?

• izacus 9y ago
  No, by "not a good" he probably means that it's not well suited for low battery consumption expected from a mobile device. Don't push your words on other people :(
  • ralphm 9y ago
    The battery argument is just misinformed. The real reason Google dropped XMPP was not a technical one. Yes, Google claimed it was not "cloud ready" at that GoogleIO. The same one where they announced Google Cloud Messaging, based on, wait for it, XMPP.
• stevenwoo 9y ago
  IIRC WeChat started from the ground up with a custom protocol designed for compatibility/efficiency with low bandwidth mobile networks for maximum reach, IMHO a great example of thinking outside the box of "let's use XMPP since it works".
  • what_ever 9y ago
    Just curious, who else is using that protocol?
    • stevenwoo 9y ago
      Don't think anyone is, I thought there was a hacker news story on it but I could not find it with search, sorry.