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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by beagle3 on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:45AM (#11795383)
That's not much different than dropping xmpp federation: Microsoft was charging them for the patent license on ActiveSync, AND attacking android at the same time. So Google dropped ActiveSync at the point in time when it hurt Microsoft most - WP8 release. Microsoft's response was "no no no, don't pay for ActiveSync but please keep it up"

Historically, Google drops features when they don't make financial sense or when they give leverage/advantage to competitors.

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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by partiallypro on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:52AM (#11796542)
Right, now try setting up Outlook 2016 with Gmail. It has nothing to do with financial sense, they intentionally broke the functionality. That's anti-competitive. You can search for the various people having problems with it. If Microsoft had done what Google did, they'd have made the front news of major publications for being anti-competitive. Google is a darling, so they get away with murder. This is just a minor example.
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