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Killing Google Hangouts is a huge FUCK YOU to Google users. I'm sure people at Google have heard this, and they have other priorities; aka they don't care that
by csours 5y ago
Killing Google Hangouts is a huge FUCK YOU to Google users. I'm sure people at Google have heard this, and they have other priorities; aka they don't care that they are fucking their userbase. I'm quite sure there are technical reasons to kill it, but I feel like the real reason is that Google simply doesn't want to do any thing that is not currently scaling up. I'm sure their cost structure cannot support products that aren't growing. I'm sure their culture of career advancement means that no engineer wants to be on the Hangouts team. I'm sure that NONE OF THAT MATTERS TO USERS.
- takeda 5y agoSame plan is with e-mail. Run gmail until it's not feasible anymore to use anything else than gmail (you can have SMTP server with 10+ years, that never sent a spam, not listed on any spam blocks, have correctly configured SPF, DKIM but still put its mail to spam). Once no one will run their SMTP gmail will be similarly killed using the Microsoft's EEE aproach. They do this over and over again (even the Hangouts essentially killed XMPP). Fuck the cancer that is google. They are actually destroying what Internet was meant to be.