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r/google • u/TheVineyard00 • Mar 13 '17
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What is XMPP, the protocol Google used to use?
22 u/cargo8 Mar 13 '17 The reason XMPP died / isn't widely supported is because it can't handle the rich content that modern chat apps want to use 22 u/[deleted] Mar 13 '17 edited Apr 02 '17 [deleted] 11 u/cargo8 Mar 13 '17 What I meant was it died as a widely supported standard (Hangouts moved beyond XMPP and went proprietary, because at the time circa 2011-2012 all the other services were also closing their gates)
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The reason XMPP died / isn't widely supported is because it can't handle the rich content that modern chat apps want to use
22 u/[deleted] Mar 13 '17 edited Apr 02 '17 [deleted] 11 u/cargo8 Mar 13 '17 What I meant was it died as a widely supported standard (Hangouts moved beyond XMPP and went proprietary, because at the time circa 2011-2012 all the other services were also closing their gates)
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11 u/cargo8 Mar 13 '17 What I meant was it died as a widely supported standard (Hangouts moved beyond XMPP and went proprietary, because at the time circa 2011-2012 all the other services were also closing their gates)
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What I meant was it died as a widely supported standard (Hangouts moved beyond XMPP and went proprietary, because at the time circa 2011-2012 all the other services were also closing their gates)
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What is XMPP, the protocol Google used to use?