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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by upofadown on Sunday February 11, 2018 @07:27AM (#16352401)
Yeah and email doesn't have hardly of those features either. It's basically just text or perhaps HTML. Sending files is super inefficient and awkward. Encryption is hardly supported on clients.

None of that changes the fact that email is a useful and reliable way to send a text message to someone. In the same way XMPP is a useful and reliable way to send a text message to someone. If all you have is a lowest common denominator there is no point in dismissing it for something that doesn't exist.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by dmitriid on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:42AM (#16352843)
> Yeah and email doesn't have hardly of those features either

That's why:

- there have been countless attempts to improve email (anything from threading, to automatic contact info to inline images to file previews, to adding interactivity to emails, to... to...)

- the younger generation prefers anything but email

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