There was an article in ArsTechnica last August - A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps [1] - that documented Google's histo

There was an article in ArsTechnica last August - A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps [1] - that documented Google's history of messaging/chat clients. It's a sobering read. It was posted on HN and generated 80 comments [2]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299727