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Gtalk will still be available though. "... which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk."
by yanw 13y ago
Gtalk will still be available though.
"... which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk."
- mcintyre1994 13y agoI don't think it's reasonable to expect Google Talk to remain indefinitely though - if you need XMPP you at least want an exit strategy if Hangouts isn't suitable. It's quite telling that the Hangouts app on Android is called "Hangouts (replaces Talk)" and takes Talk's URL in the play store.
- yanw 13y agoIn GTalk's case any XMPP client will do so an official app is almost irrelevant in its case.
- sp332 13y agoRight, but you still need Google's XMPP server to support it.
- yanw 13y agoIt's still there.
- ricardobeat 13y agoFor now.
- jlgreco 13y agoDespite the clear warning signs, I am willing to put money on people whinging in a year or two when they shut down those servers, just like everyone got all upset about Reader.
- npsimons 13y agoAnd whining about shutting down Reader accomplished what, exactly?
- jlgreco 13y agoAbsolutely nothing of course. Didn't stop people from whining; people love to whine on the internet.
- sp332 13y agoThere was no good replacement for Reader two years ago. There are plenty of federated XMPP servers around now.
- subway 13y agoPlenty of federated XMPP servers, true, but unlike Reader, XMPP requires other users on federated servers to be useful. Since the Reader brouhaha I'd been considering moving away from GApps back to hosting my own mail and xmpp. Now Google has made the XMPP side of that worthless, 87% of my IM contacts use G(Mail|Talk), and will switch to Hangouts.
- silon5 13y agoIf they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y ago"may" my ass. Google forced the Google+ extension on me faster than Steve Jobs used to declare that white was the new black.
- zobzu 13y agoUntil it gets killed, in 2 years from now. Or less.
- notatoad 13y agodon't expect that to last too long. the google talk android app updates to become hangouts, and the chrome extension became hangouts automatically today.
- makomk 13y agoWill GTalk be able to communicate to users of Hangouts, though, or will everyone be forced over to Hangouts in order to continue to speak to the people who move over? I'm guessing the latter.
- Shank 13y agoYes, for now they're basically the same service. I'd imagine that this will change as Hangouts diverges more and more from what Talk supports, to the point where Talk will be killed due to disuse.