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To be fair, Facebook never federated with XMPP. They just allowed you to use a XMPP client to log into their own network for a while. Google did though, and pu
by seba_dos1 3y ago
To be fair, Facebook never federated with XMPP. They just allowed you to use a XMPP client to log into their own network for a while.
Google did though, and pulled the described bait-and-switch when depreciating Google Talk in favor of Hangouts (remember those?).
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago> Google did though, and pulled the described bait-and-switch when depreciating Google Talk in favor of Hangouts (remember those?). I feel like this really backfired for Google though! Hangouts does not have a large user base, at least relative to Google's scale.
- munk-a 3y agoIsn't Hangouts dead now? I though Google's new thing was "Meet".
- WorldMaker 3y agoLast I heard Meet is dead and there is a new Hangouts which is a rebranded Allo with zombie chunks of Meet, I think? I feel like every description of Google's chat application strategy ends with the punchline, "The Aristocrats!"
- seba_dos1 3y ago> I feel like this really backfired for Google though! Yeah, it did. They handled it really bad. From my experience, back in the Google Talk days I could easily reach my family, friends and people at work via XMPP just because Gmail integration was excellent - no indoctrination required, they were already there checking their e-mails. Once Google forced the switch to Hangouts, it sadly became easier to reach them via Facebook. Nobody really cared to use Hangouts anymore, especially when people started to switch from PCs to smartphones where Hangouts wasn't integrated into Gmail at all, and XMPP defederation meant that I didn't have any reason to stay there either.