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Meet, more

18 points by ikeboy 7y ago

BasicObject 7y ago
I miss Google Chat. I miss using it on any platform I wanted. Those were the days. Back when xmpp was in full swing.
shreyshrey 7y ago
The underlying premise (“ bring together the functions of several standalone apps“) seems more like our airsend app (https://www.airsend.io https://www.airsend.io). Oh well :)
swivelmaster 7y ago
Sounds an awful lot like Google is getting ready to repeat the mistakes of Yahoo! by chasing seemingly hot markets instead of finding ways to better support the customers and products they already have.
- gundmc 7y ago
  How so? This is an enterprise play. An integrated, fully featured chat app are table stakes to be considered against the likes of Microsoft Office. This isn't chasing some hot fad.
  - swivelmaster 7y ago
    An enterprise play is a good idea, but Google has been messing around with the branding and implementation of their consumer products while chasing this strategy. I am reminded of Yahoo! building what was basically an enormous social network with Chat, Profiles, Groups, and Mail and then throwing much of it away to start over when the first actual social networking sites started to get big. Most people are already confused about Hangouts vs GChat vs "the chat in Gmail," and I fear this will only get worse.
weq 7y ago
And then will deprecate the service because its not adding the desired $$ to AdSense and you will be left high and dry :)
m-p-3 7y ago
Google Wave v2
Crash0v3rid3 7y ago
Anyone remember Pidgin chat client? I loved having a single UI with all the various chat services I used. Looks like they are still in active development too: https://pidgin.im/ https://pidgin.im/ I wish I could do something similar today with iMessage, Hangouts, and WhatsApp.
- oh_boy 7y ago
  In case you missed: Pidgin has many plugins including for Whatsapp.
Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
I’ve never seen https://www.xkcd.com/927/ https://www.xkcd.com/927/ reenacted within one single company before.
hurricanetc 7y ago
You would have to be an absolute fool to put your business on a Google messaging platform. If you hope your business lasts a decade you’ll likely be forced into a major platform switch 3-4 times. Not to mention Google is essentially a spyware company and you shouldn’t trust them with your business data.

18 points by ikeboy 7y ago

I miss Google Chat. I miss using it on any platform I wanted. Those were the days. Back when xmpp was in full swing.

The underlying premise (“ bring together the functions of several standalone apps“) seems more like our airsend app (https://www.airsend.io https://www.airsend.io). Oh well :)

swivelmaster 7y ago

Sounds an awful lot like Google is getting ready to repeat the mistakes of Yahoo! by chasing seemingly hot markets instead of finding ways to better support the customers and products they already have.

gundmc 7y ago
How so? This is an enterprise play. An integrated, fully featured chat app are table stakes to be considered against the likes of Microsoft Office. This isn't chasing some hot fad.
- swivelmaster 7y ago
  An enterprise play is a good idea, but Google has been messing around with the branding and implementation of their consumer products while chasing this strategy. I am reminded of Yahoo! building what was basically an enormous social network with Chat, Profiles, Groups, and Mail and then throwing much of it away to start over when the first actual social networking sites started to get big. Most people are already confused about Hangouts vs GChat vs "the chat in Gmail," and I fear this will only get worse.

weq 7y ago

And then will deprecate the service because its not adding the desired $$ to AdSense and you will be left high and dry :)

m-p-3 7y ago

Google Wave v2

Crash0v3rid3 7y ago

Anyone remember Pidgin chat client? I loved having a single UI with all the various chat services I used. Looks like they are still in active development too: https://pidgin.im/ https://pidgin.im/ I wish I could do something similar today with iMessage, Hangouts, and WhatsApp.

oh_boy 7y ago
In case you missed: Pidgin has many plugins including for Whatsapp.

Doctor_Fegg 7y ago

I’ve never seen https://www.xkcd.com/927/ https://www.xkcd.com/927/ reenacted within one single company before.

hurricanetc 7y ago

You would have to be an absolute fool to put your business on a Google messaging platform. If you hope your business lasts a decade you’ll likely be forced into a major platform switch 3-4 times. Not to mention Google is essentially a spyware company and you shouldn’t trust them with your business data.