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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by leddt on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:48PM (#16487369)
> and has multiple chat apps for the same reason GM has multiple automobiles.

But all of GM's cars (and their competitors) can use the same roads.

All those chat apps with their own user bases and incompatible protocols create isolated bubbles, ultimately harming all of them.

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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:11PM (#16487603)
> But all of GM's cars (and their competitors) can use the same roads.

And all of Google's messaging apps use the same internet. (If you mean to suggest endpoint compatibility, “parking spots” might be better, though that's not entirely true even of the cars, but certainly more true than the analogous thing would.be of Google messaging apps.)

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