Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble

Re:Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble by danielnr on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:39PM (#5395292)

I'm all for Google fixing their mess of communications platforms, but by attempting to consolidate those into a proprietary solution, I fear they've doomed it to the same fate as Google Wave.

If they were to at least include support for XMPP clients, they would be golden; however, the opposite appears to be true.

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Re:Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble by xradionut on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:55PM (#5395412)

After they captured a good chunk of the RSS eyeballs, then pissed off the users, I'm wary of anything Google does. I'm going to have to spend a significant amount of time decoupling myself from their existing services.

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Re:Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble by MrTw3Tea on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:10PM (#5395539)

Yea, I think that sentiment is being felt by quite a few. I'm in the process of doing a little spring cleaning myself.

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Re:Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble by fakeer on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:06PM (#5395991)

Good idea. Me too.

I think Google is not much concerned about the crowd which loves to brew its own coffee(HN and the elk) and curate their Ghostery/ABP prefs, but they are rather focussed on the majority which loves to buy things online and also click on ads and hardly care how much Google reads their email.

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