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Dropping XMPP is not the issue, using a proprietary protocol is. Had Google opened this protocol it would not be a problem. Keep in mind that this decision was not technical but po…

Not sure if you're trolling. Google+ has never been mandatory within Google. There's plenty of people at Google who despise Vic Gundotra and don't want to have anything to do with …

>This wave of product discontinuations i I see what you did there.

You're not missing anything. Most if not all of your concerns were voiced during the internal dogfooding phase and, as usual for G+ and Vic Gundotra, duly noted and ignored.

And still is really sad that Google employees still waste time creating memes about Michael in their stupid internal memegen site many months after his departure.

Personally I'd love to see a community driven extension to XMPP, with its corresponding RFC, which would allow feature parity with Google's proprietary crap while keeping interoper…

Yep, I already warned about this a few days ago. I would like to encourage everyone to avoid using this walled garden service and make sure you tell both your friends and Google wh…

The Netflix competitor is paid Youtube channels, except it only works in a few countries and it's not as good as Netflix. Google has bet everything on social and are creating these…

There is no successor to Reader, it's gone. Forever. Babel (Hangouts) is not theoretical, is very real and has been leaked already. It's just a walled garden (they threw XMPP away …

You should not be surprised, those people are stuck in the 12th century. I wish the rest of the world stopped buying oil from those idiots.

No they didn't. This is actually run by a third party as Google does not own these offices. FWIW Google has a pretty decent security team, although for some reason most of them are…

Google just paid him so no more anti-Google articles will be written. Very clever of them.

My sentiments exactly. I've met plenty of condescending assholes at Google but them being geeks was not the reason why they behaved like jerks.

That's because that joke stopped being funny 10 years ago.

I never understand this blind hated for Sony. The OtherOS thing was a reaction to the Geocrap clown. The people who design the phones have nothing to do with that anyway. The Xperi…

Looks almost as annoying a Google's reCAPTCHA.

I just found out about this comment. There is a bunch of arrogant and condescending Googlers that continue mocking you in both the internal mailing lists and the memegen site. Thou…

Why do you call those people hackers? Hackers build things, don't piss on other people's work.

He's the fella who shutdown the Atlanta engineering office and killed the projects that were being developed there. Not a big fan. Edit: He's also responsible for the CalDav fiasco…

How could like the G1? The capacitive screen was awful and the performance terrible, although the latter was due to lack of optimizations and JIT in the Android VM. Now that Sundar…

Google has made several mistakes re social products but it's definitely not against the open web. There's a lot of internal criticism every time one of these decisions is made but,…

Why would you trust this so called "hacker", it's that Marcan clown after all.

No it isn't. It's been asked, like many other parts of the company, to integrate with the Google+ crap. How is that independent? About the article, 300m is just pocket change for G…

Thanks for the info. I'd happily for a service like this than rely on Google's "free" stuff that they might the plug on any time they want to push their useless G+ crap.