I think the story of google messaging apps is actually making a very good argument why companies the size of google should not exist. Any regular company would

I think the story of google messaging apps is actually making a very good argument why companies the size of google should not exist. Any regular company would have folded many times over with the amount of massive failures, instead for google they amount to barely a blib to their performance. On another note, I think by now it is too late for google to ever make a messaging product to compete with the others. Mainly because amongst tech enthusiasts google has lost the "cool" reputation of not being evil, and they have been burned by too many cancelled products. These people are early adopters that often push others to a platform. Google would really need to come up with something much better than everything else to outweigh this. I am doubtful that is even possible, especially for google based on their history.