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Both Google and MS created excellent IM systems based on email. It can be done. It isn’t because there is no billion dollar exit possible on an email based sys
by addicted 5y ago
Both Google and MS created excellent IM systems based on email.
It can be done. It isn’t because there is no billion dollar exit possible on an email based system.
- atatatat 5y agoWhat IM systems are you referring to..?
- stephenhuey 5y agoPretty sure he's talking about the original chat embedded in the Gmail interface. The earliest records I can find in my logs are from February 2006. For at least 7 years I used it, and for many years my usage was quite extensive. Either due to changed preferences when I got older or iMessage or other things, it looks like I generally stopped chatting in there around May 2013. From my perspective, Google was sitting on a gold mine because so many people I knew in the USA and across the ocean were using it and it worked very well until they started fiddling with the product in ways that made it more clunky.