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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by dweinus on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:35AM (#11795358)
Personally,I had that moment when Google bought my favorite interoperable chat app so they could kill it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo
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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by moreira on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:47AM (#11795392)
YES! Meebo was the best. I used to use it on both the web and mobile, all the time. I was extremely disappointed when Google bought them and shut them down just like that.
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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by ocdtrekkie on Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:13PM (#11797138)
Yeah, this was the beginning of the end of my support for things done by Google.
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