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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by hueving on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:53AM (#16882929)
>We don’t believe in taking the approach that Apple does.

I bet the person who wrote that is naive enough to believe it due to lack of historical knowledge. Probably 95% of the current Google employees were hired after XMPP support was dead.

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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by majewsky on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:40AM (#16883164)
Probably the person who wrote it is in marketing, gets handed down a list of talking points, and has no idea about the technical background of the decision.
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