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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by theinternetman on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:56AM (#11166336)
Not to mention Google Talk was a chat system first and foremost.

Hangouts is a funnel to get you to use their browser (still don't understand why it ships as a plugin) and social network first, chat application second.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by untog on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:02AM (#11167198)
> still don't understand why it ships as a plugin

I always assumed it was because it would be cross-platform by default. Making native apps for Hangouts on Windows, OS X and Linux would be pretty time consuming.

Also not sure what you mean by "social network", it looks a lot like a chat app to me.

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by xeromal on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:46AM (#11167566)
Hangouts was a big part of Google+. I'm pretty sure Obama did a "hangout" on Google+ back in the day.
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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by oselhn on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:41AM (#11167521)
Or you can use open protocol and let community to do the work for free.
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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by cookiecaper on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:35AM (#11167998)
The plugin is not required if you use Chrome.
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