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• @pierce David Pierce on x

  This is a great dive into how Google botched messaging for 15 years, and the table of contents BY ITSELF is a truly epic burn https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @bmwiernik @bmwiernik on x

  This treatise on the dozens of failed Google messaging platforms is one of the funniest things I've read in a while https://arstechnica.com/...

• @dimatosj John Dimatos on x

  I've had such a good run of quixotic jobs in the last decade, someone should definitely recruit me for the next Google messaging team https://twitter.com/...

• @ugobananas Jana Hall on x

  I really liked hangouts a lot ngl https://twitter.com/...

• @anthonyleezhang Anthony Lee Zhang on x

  But think of all the PMs that got promoted because of this list! https://twitter.com/...

• @andthemeltdowns @andthemeltdowns on x

  At least four of the products on this list are called Google Hangouts. https://twitter.com/...

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  The amount of research that went into this article is breathtaking - an incredibly comprehensive history of Google's many, many, many messaging applications https://twitter.com/...

• @randyshoup Randy Shoup on x

  “An innumerable number of under-funded, unstable side projects led by job-hopping project managers” 🤣 https://twitter.com/...

• @newsycombinator @newsycombinator on x

  A history of Google messaging apps: Will Google ever figure this out? https://arstechnica.com/...

• @cydharrell Cyd Harrell on x

  among other things, @RonAmadeo also wrote the ode to Inbox that I keep open in a tab. this new piece is masterful. https://twitter.com/...

• @anildash @anildash on x

  “[N]o single company has ever failed at something this badly, for this long, with this many different products.” Phew. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x

  This @arstechnica article is a fab summary of how Google botched up its approach to messaging services over the years. Come for the TOC, stay for the painful story. Also, a reminder that success in one area online does not mean guaranteed success elsewhere https://arstechnica.com…

• @mattcolville Matt Colville on x

  “Is anyone in charge at Google?” https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  “Because no single company has ever failed at something this badly, for this long, with this many different products (and because it has barely been a month since the rollout of Google Chat), the time has come to outline the history of Google messaging.” https://arstechnica.com/.…

• @apenwarr @apenwarr on x

  Wow, really well researched and well written. And the lineup of new chat apps in 2021 is hilarious. I think they missed the awesome Area120 voice recognition chat app though. https://twitter.com/...

• @timcohn Tim Cohn on x

  A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps https://arstechnica.com/...

• @backlon Dieter Bohn on x

  Love this giant saga from @RonAmadeo laying out every Google Messaging app failure. https://arstechnica.com/...