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I 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 suitab
by mcintyre1994 14y ago
I 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 14y agoIn GTalk's case any XMPP client will do so an official app is almost irrelevant in its case.
- sp332 14y agoRight, but you still need Google's XMPP server to support it.
- yanw 14y agoIt's still there.
- ricardobeat 14y agoFor now.
- jlgreco 14y 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 14y agoAnd whining about shutting down Reader accomplished what, exactly?
- jlgreco 14y agoAbsolutely nothing of course. Didn't stop people from whining; people love to whine on the internet.
- sp332 14y agoThere was no good replacement for Reader two years ago. There are plenty of federated XMPP servers around now.
- subway 14y 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 14y agoIf they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.