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Clearly not, since SMTP and IMAP are still in far greater use than RSS and XMPP ever were. But do you think that question will never be legitimate? Will we stil

by DanI-S 13y ago

Clearly not, since SMTP and IMAP are still in far greater use than RSS and XMPP ever were. But do you think that question will never be legitimate? Will we still be using SMTP in 2113? Google is planning to be around for a long time. What percentage of the resources of your organization do you devote to supporting old technologies in limited use?

ernesth 13y ago
Of course, IMAP and SMTP might be replaced by better protocols in the future (as POP3 was). However, my point was that the fact that the search trend for a protocol is downhill does not mean it is no longer used and should be scrapped. I argue that XMPP is in wider use than it has ever been. And that RSS has not been replaced by anything yet. Hence stopping their support in favour of a locked proprietary platform is bad and explaining this move by google trends is absurd.