Demise of Google Hangouts?

Eion Robb eion at robbmob.com
Tue Nov 5 18:36:44 EST 2019


Pretty much all the protocols on
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#AdditionalProtocols have
Android clients

In terms of what I personally use regularly with people who are on Android:
Hangouts, Facebook, Telegram, Skype, XMPP, SMS, Discord

Cheers,
Eion

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 11:49, Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com> wrote:

> 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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