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I hate to beat a dead horse but its been an issue even before Android. I had gmail in the inital invite-only launch back in 2004. They added their first real chat feature into gmail (back when gmail was the only google service you needed an account for) in 2006, 2 years before Android.

I don't even know what they call that chat-inside-gmail these days. Talk? Chat? I remember it getting merged with Hangouts eventually and then un-merged. Or was that Voice?

I was on Voice too as GrandCentral back before Google bought them. The mp3 ringback functionality which was the first feature lost in the purchase.

Ended up reminiscing a bit there but its been a crazy ride in the Google sphere.

[rusk]

That was google "Buzz" - a very simple XMPP based chat app, that it really wouldn't have hurt to hold on to. Last I heard it was merged into hangouts yeah, but hopefully it should still work with standalone XMPP clients ...