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by g_p 1909 days ago
Google certainly seems to do this when it comes to chat applications. Ironically though, they've actually (arguably) lost marketshare - they went from gtalk being pretty widely used (in the late 2000s, early 2010s, as Android took off), to having a confused and fragmented ecosystem (Allo, Duo, Hangouts, Chat, Messaging), and it seems none of those have the same market penetration as the original did.

Perhaps internal competition to that extent simply confuses customers?
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takeda 1908 days ago
They essentially destroyed all competition (AIM, YIM, ICQ, MSN etc), the open source solution that would standardize chat (XMPP) and themselves. Making people just go and use proprietary solution like WhatsUp.

XMPP was so promising.

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Zash 1908 days ago
Psst, hey, XMPP isn't quite dead yet! Some of us never stopped working on it. Come help bring it back into the hype!
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