Thread: Google drops XMPP support in its new chat/Talk/Hangouts
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2013-05-17 , 15:11
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Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
To be blunt, this is the right call.

Open-source is not always the best way to do business. As Google put it, XMPP isn't fully featured enough to incorporate messaging, SMS, MMS, Phone calls, Video calls, Group Calls, Group Conferencing, File attachments, Contacts, Calendar, Social Networking all-together.

On top, it may not be easily be portable to several different systems.
That is quite a lame attempt at criticising Jabber. Jabber fully supports phone calls, video calls, group conference, sending files and more features than most propietary networks can even dream of. The standard's own defined enhacement mechanism has been quite active for the past decade.

In fact, most 3rd party clients lack features the standard supports (e.g. see Nokia's continual refusal of implementing a UI for multiuser chat in the Messaging client, despite the fact the backend component has supported it for a decade!).

The argument that it is not portable is utter garbage, seeing that there are Jabber clients in virtually every platform imaginable.

Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
And if Google invested the needed effort, resources, time and money to develop a new standard. Otherwise to evolve the XMPP standard. History would've simply repeated itself.

Other companies would've adopted the standard and forked it for their liking, with no interoperability with Google's efforts. Hence, a new "WatsApp" wouldn't be able to communicate with "Hangouts".
While I'm quite sure this would have happened, it doesn't make Google's actions any less evil. They've now in fact become like those "other companies".

Watch how you'll never be able to fully use all features of Google's new crappy instant messenger in whatever next plaform you are interested in.


Personally, I had started using my own Jabber server since the last outage. Google has been so evil as of lately, I betted with some friends than on this I/O they would "regretfully announce" dropping support for Jabber. And look at what just happened.

Note that I did not claim my price yet because they have not confirmed the date for the shutdown.
 

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