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Rumours of Hangouts' death are greatly exaggerated. I used it a few weeks ago. Also, in Google's defence, no-one loved Wave, and they gave it to Apache rather
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
Rumours of Hangouts' death are greatly exaggerated. I used it a few weeks ago.
Also, in Google's defence, no-one loved Wave, and they gave it to Apache rather than vanishing it. (Unlike Reader, which just vanished forever.)
- hobs 7y agoI loved Wave, and what they gave away was a super unimpressive install process that you'd have to federate with other people anyway.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoThat strikes me as a nitpick. They gave away the code for what was previously a fully managed service. A smooth install process wasn't originally a goal. No sense biting the hand that feeds. If the world had wanted Wave, it would have lived on, rather than Apache eventually retiring it.
- hobs 7y agoI guess you werent there, attempting to install the service that was shut down abruptly with barely/no documentation and no way to use it with anyone else?
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoOk, so they could have done a better job transitioning it to an Open Source project. I maintain that Google deserves credit for releasing and Freeing/Open Sourcing the source code. If the interest were there, the new maintainers could have handled repackaging and documenting.
- dariusj18 7y agoI loved the idea of Wave. Especially the idea that a company like Google was creating a new technology that wasn't a walled garden.