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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by PedroBatista on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:34PM (#16886755)
By "not a good" you mean an open protocol not controlled by Google?
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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by izacus on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:41PM (#16886819)
No, by "not a good" he probably means that it's not well suited for low battery consumption expected from a mobile device.

Don't push your words on other people :(

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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by ralphm on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:01PM (#16887587)
The battery argument is just misinformed. The real reason Google dropped XMPP was not a technical one. Yes, Google claimed it was not "cloud ready" at that GoogleIO. The same one where they announced Google Cloud Messaging, based on, wait for it, XMPP.
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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by stevenwoo on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:45PM (#16886855)
IIRC WeChat started from the ground up with a custom protocol designed for compatibility/efficiency with low bandwidth mobile networks for maximum reach, IMHO a great example of thinking outside the box of "let's use XMPP since it works".
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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by what_ever on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:01PM (#16887012)
Just curious, who else is using that protocol?
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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by stevenwoo on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:00PM (#16887562)
Don't think anyone is, I thought there was a hacker news story on it but I could not find it with search, sorry.
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