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Hahahaha....Google used to have XMPP too, you know, but the Google Talk servers move more and more away from it every day. Hell, the classes for using Google Talk in the Android beta used to have XMPP in their class names, then Google Talk, then they were made private all together. If you think Google would make anything into normal XMPP you just don't know much about the space.

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I don't see them moving away much. They had problems with federated invites lately, but they fixed it already.

Just to add, their recent invite blockade was discussed by them on a public mailing list.

Right, even though usually Google is very hard to reach on similar issues.

Google is very hard to reach on issues altogether. As a policy, it seems, they make sure the customer doesn't get a chance of human interaction - even the paying ones - and even though the experience is eating(other than monetary loss) the customer they go on doing that anyway.

I never understood that. They should have enough money to offer decent support.

Link for the curious, follow link to public mailing list:

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-feder...

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