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		shmerl on March 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No, it’s not the end of XMPP for Google Talk > Google was in a position to change all that when they adopted XMPP for Google Talk. I'd add to that that if they considered XMPP inferior for whatever reason, they were in position to change it by opening up Hangouts like XMPP-next or whatever. They simply betrayed the whole effort.

iopq on March 3, 2015 [–]

Exactly, if they wanted to propose XMPP 2.0 like they did with HTTP, they could have done so.

zanny on March 3, 2015 | [–]

They didn't want to fix IM, they wanted a captive audience using something that at the time required Google+.

That sounds like a familiar trend for so many Google properties in the last few years...

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