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The Days of Google Talk Are Over (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

The days of Google Talk are quickly coming to an end. An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: As the company announced today, the messaging service that allowed Gmail users to talk to each other since it launched in 2005, will now be completely retired. Even while Google pushed Hangouts as its consumer messaging service (before Allo, Duo, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet) over the last few years, it still allowed die-hard Gtalk users (and there are plenty of them) to stick to their preferred chat app. Over the next few days, these users will get an "invite" to move to Hangouts. After June 26, that switch will be mandatory.

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  1. Re:XMPP still supported by elbiatcho1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aren't they removing SMS from Hangouts? So Hangouts will be that more useless...and Google will ask Hangout users to switch to something else. The ol' double-switcheroo!

  2. So how does all this affect Project Fi? by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So how does all this affect Project Fi? And the SMS and voice mail and calling support that's integrated in gmail and hangouts?

    I am SO confused....

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  3. No problem! by ilsaloving · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds like it's high time to completely boycott all of these stupid services that google makes.

    I swear, I have never in my life met a company with such unbelievably severe, systemic organizational ADD, such that they can't seem to keep any of their services in operation for more than a few years before they get bored and try to convince everyone to change to something else.

    It's to the point where I'm honestly surprised that Google Maps is still available.