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		stavros on May 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messagi... > It seems they'll use open standards only as long as it serves them To be fair, how did XMPP serve them? They weren't really benefitting from it, they did it mostly for the good of the community.

msbarnett on May 24, 2013 [–]

It let people seamlessly move to gchat from compatible chat services, which led to quick uptake (it's the only reason I started using pretty much as soon as it was available) and got Google a lot of chat logs to datamine.

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