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Is this a rhetorical question? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I needed a message system that I knew would make messages unavailable after a few years because it was shut down by a company that never supports side projects this would be a valuable service.

[โ€“] Contend6248@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This, never commit to any Google products beside search, maps, mail and Android

[โ€“] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I learned that lesson with Google+. I loved it back in the day, then suddenly they just canned it.

[โ€“] XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still available in their business accounts. :P

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LMAO TIL, I think it is a wasteland isn't it?

[โ€“] XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlin 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, pretty much.

[โ€“] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

But what about our Lord and Savior, RCS?

[โ€“] poopkins@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's ironic, because Google Chat to this day has migrated chats over from Hangouts and effectively served messaging for over a decade. But even Hangouts migrated chats over from Google Talk, which I personally used at least as far back as 2010.

To put that into perspective, Apple's iMessage has only been around since 2011.

[โ€“] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You have no idea how many messages I had in Wave. Do you realize how many Google messaging services have come and gone with zero portability?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline