You know, Google, the web already had this feature

Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by coldtea on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:09PM (#5541380)

Huh?

1) There are tons of decent email services out there.

2) GoogleTalk, who uses that?

3) YouTube I agree. Though that's an acquired company, so it's not all to Google's credit. If it was up to Google, we'd only have the shitty Google Video.

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Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by nilkn on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:03PM (#5542080)

> 1) There are tons of decent email services out there.

Honestly, no, not really. It's especially not true if you want to avoid one of the main problems with Google products (ad targeting). Gmail itself is actually pretty poor IMHO as it is, though. The UI drives me crazy sometimes. So I may eventually go to a cheap paid service and also get rid of ads too.

> 2) GoogleTalk, who uses that?

Me and a number of my close friends.

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Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by qu4z-2 on Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:28PM (#5549581)

> 2) GoogleTalk, who uses that?

Everyone I know. It's the only person-to-person (ie not irc) chat protocol I use. OTOH, at least it's jabber, which is federated. So yeah.

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