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There are also a view counterexamples, for example that Google abandoned its native client in favour of webassembly when the standard took form. The same with p
by tehabe 8y ago
There are also a view counterexamples, for example that Google abandoned its native client in favour of webassembly when the standard took form. The same with progressive web apps which will replace the "web apps" in Chrome.
I was also sad when Google Talk was shutdown for Hangouts but to be honest, XMPP was going nowhere. The quality of available clients was very different. You had awful clients like Apple iChat (which is still awful), complete client like Psi which stopped at some point, clients which wanted to be everything like Adium/Pidgin, etc. pp.
Google Reader was indeed sad and really weird, they could have build on top of their social networks they already had but they wanted something new and shiny. I still look for a good replacement.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoThe Google Reader one is so baffling and love to hear the real story at some point.
- ebikelaw 8y agoBoring story. Vic Gundotra, the clueless jackass from Microsoft that Google made SVP for Social did not think RSS fit into his idiotic vision so he shut it off.
- Eridrus 8y agoGoogle Reader was a product in decline with low usage numbers and revenue, and it really wasn't aligned with the way the world/web was headed, this made it hard to retain engineers on the project since it was a career dead end. We all have a soft spot in our hearts for Reader, but the world has largely moved on to algorithmic feeds, because that's what most users want. Most users are intimidated by the fact that you have to find people to follow on Twitter, let alone find RSS feeds.
- Boulth 8y agoW.r.t. XMPP have you seen https://Conversations.im https://Conversations.im or https://dino.im https://dino.im? I'm using the former daily and the experience is very good, it's a modern messanger. Hangouts is stuck in the past.
- tehabe 8y agoI know Conversations, I like it but I lost all my Jabber contacts over the years (also due to the fact that the server I was using shut down). So, my list is empty. I have not tried Dino (I don't use Linux at the moment).