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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by lern_too_spel on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:53PM (#16487991)
Which is stupid. They have no consumer messaging application that works across devices to migrate to. If they kill off Hangouts, it will cause a bigger backlash than killing off Reader did.
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by ucaetano on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:47PM (#16489036)
Reader, and its shut down, were mostly irrelevant for Google.
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by lern_too_spel on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:36PM (#16489714)
Which is why I said it will cause a big backlash, not that it would impact revenues.
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Re:Google Hangouts Chat by ac29 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:04AM (#16489812)
Allo works on Android/iOS/Web.
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