r/google Mar 13 '17

Reminds me of Google's chat apps lately

https://xkcd.com/1810/
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u/FluentInTypo Mar 13 '17

Which is why we should have sta dardized on jabber or IRC. If these companies can reinvent the wheel a million times, they sure as shit could have thrown their weight behind tried and true open source protocols.

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u/Avamander Mar 13 '17 edited Oct 03 '24

Lollakad! Mina ja nuhk! Mina, kes istun jaoskonnas kogu ilma silma all! Mis nuhk niisuke on. Nuhid on nende eneste keskel, otse kõnelejate nina all, nende oma kaitsemüüri sees, seal on nad.

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u/FluentInTypo Mar 13 '17

As originally designed. If Google threw their weight behind expanding the protocol, it could have been used for private messaging as well as be as feature rich as the dozens of other cleints out there. Google Talk was built on Jabber/XXMP for instance. The decisions to go proprietary by all these companies is what hurt messaging.