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Would anything get you to use Google Chat with friends? (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Is this a rhetorical question? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] Synthead@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have released and killed about a dozen chat services. What makes this one different?

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The name, I guess

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

There actually was a Google Chat before. It used XMPP. They're even recycling names, cause they're starting to run out of names from all the past services they killed.