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They are not in short term. But do you expect them to keep it going when they have alternative, preferred way of doing and limited resources?
by samastur 13y ago
They are not in short term. But do you expect them to keep it going when they have alternative, preferred way of doing and limited resources?
- thwarted 13y agoThe idea that Google has limited resources, in any practical manner, is laughable. Google already does some kind of charity work, it would be interesting to see them support the continued development of open protocols as side projects to their main offering. This would be the cost of a handful of developers per project/protocol. But they didn't want to support even the small group that was working on Reader, which used to be a core business offering.
- samastur 13y agoIt would be interesting if it happened. I wouldn't hold my breath. It doesn't matter if their resources are huge, which they are. They are finite and they have shown, lately quite often, that they don't want to spend them even on things which are relatively popular if they don't see strategic value in them. Are you really arguing that keeping GTalk around as a competitor to their G+ messenger/hangout/whatever client will help them long term?