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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by shmerl on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:29PM (#13952383)
Someone has to start doing it, otherwise you'll get the catch 22. So "others aren't doing it" is not an excuse.
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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by johncolanduoni on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:46PM (#13952491)
But they did start doing it with XMPP and kept it that way for a while.
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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by shmerl on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:58PM (#13952572)
So. They had to persist, and address deficiencies too. That's the only way to break the cycle.
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