Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
We had a clean, functional chat app in Gchat that supported XMPP federation, a reasonably good file transfer protocol (IIRC it could be implemented by others) and a even emoji.<p>When Google dropped XMPP, it was pretty much the death knell for interoperability. Facebook followed suit.<p>I don&#x27;t get the politics that drives the internal chat product development, but it feels like there&#x27;s a lot of NIH-related &quot;burn it to the ground&quot; going on there. Nothing they do in this space makes sense to me at all.