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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by three_seagrass on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:06PM (#24213750)
Didn't GTalk become Hangouts?

That's my point though - the features that HN users find valuable (XMPP standard) are not the same as what most consumers do.

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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by actuator on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:17PM (#24213922)
Yeah, you are right about that. My main point was just about messaging in general where Google couldn't evolve Gtalk into a smartphone era messaging app.

XMPP I consider as an advantage personally as with lock in to platforms like Messenger/WhatsApp we complain about the total control these companies have. In an XMPP world, at least you could have had more control over clients and the ability to talk to a different Jabber server from the same client app.

I agree though that the XMPP bit, no normal user cares about.

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