Demise of Google Hangouts?

[Wade Smart]

I finally dropped pidgin - not because of it but
because all the useful services are making it
so difficult. I have several small businesses
and I used Google(multiple accounts), fb, yahoo
and aim.. and they are all crap now.  Companies
wanting to close their IM so they can push
ads and other things I would imagine are seeing
a drop in use.
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:49 PM Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com> wrote:
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> It’s been reported that Google is killing end-user Hangouts in 2020:
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> https://www.cnet.com/news/google-hangouts-gets-hung-out-to-dry-in-2020-report-says/
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> Some of us are irritated because we just moved off of AIM. I don’t care which service it is, I just need it to work—my wife is housebound and uses it a lot to communicate with me from her PC when I’m out and about. (Yes, text-to-email works, but then she has to keep checking for responses in email; Pidgin flashes/beeps). What else are people using that both Pidgin on Windows and Android phones support?
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