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Why Google needs to build an open chat client like Elemen
- Jyaif 6y agoGoogle Talk used to be XMPP based, and it was awesome. Unfortunately someone managed to convince leadership that they needed to create a new chat app with a proprietary protocol, and everything went downhill since.
- matejmecka 6y agoOne mistake I found there was never a Google Ello, it was Google Allo
- rukshn 6y agoSorry typo there, I’ll fix that
- LockAndLol 6y agoGoogle doesn't have to do anything. WE need to do something and stop relying on multinationals for so many things.
- DocTomoe 6y agoWE have a standard, that's XMPP, and it works perfectly. Nothing needs to be done. People just need to adapt. Or not.
- Jestar342 6y agoWe have them already. Xmpp/jabber, IRC, and even email.
- rukshn 6y agoYes but how many people carry an irc client on their mobile phones? I don't feel none of the chat protocols there are ported to mobile well enough, unless they use some modification to make them centralised.
- Ekaros 6y agoSo that they can kill it a few years later? I don't trust Google for anything new long term...
- Okawari 6y agoThe potential upside to this would be that if gets shut down a snazzy instance could have an advantage in capturing a lot of the migrating users as the users could pick up where they left instead of starting over in a new service
- mutant 6y agoRight, bc google is so trustworthy, and absolutely doesn't kill anything that doesn't service it's own specific goals.
- saurik 6y agoI mean, to be fair, among all the various fields Google has ever entered, they have a comparatively good track record with chat applications, in particular: Google is, in fact, pretty much known for their keen understanding of how to maintain and grow social networking products (in general), and (of course) chat applications (in specific).
- thatguy0900 6y agoIs this sarcasm? They couldn't get Google+ anywhere even by gutting YouTube for it and they have like a dozen different chat apps where Noone knows the difference between them
- saurik 6y ago(Do I really have to explicitly mark sarcasm these days? I went to great lengths to make my comment drip with flowery language like "among all the various fields Google has entered" on my way towards reaching a conclusion that would indicate Google is somehow better at chat than search, and yet I still got a response "is this sarcasm?" :/.)
- gverrilla 6y agoSounds to me like this doesn't correspond at all to google's main interests, being selling personal data from people and publicity, because first of all, how would they compete with whatsapp having more than 1 billion users in first place?
- rukshn 6y agoPeople are not loyal to any service If there is a better service they will switch to it, and like I said google can target enterprise users with their own open chat service
- malux85 6y agoNot Google, because if it becomes even mildly successful Google’s insatiable avarice will ruin it, and if it doesn’t become successful, Google’s insatiable avarice will ruin it.