google voice dropping XMPP

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

I think I recall hearing over a year ago that they were going to drop
XMPP entirely *last year* so that Google Talk stopped federating;
it seems like the Google-based XMPP account that I use at work is
*still* live, though. I wonder if that's because they've kept XMPP
alive for people who have been paying for it, or because the break
never actually happened in the way that all everyone had (mis?)understood
it was going to.

And this all reminds me..., I liked this comment that I recently found,
by Daniel Bo <http://slashdot.org/journal/257448/why-so-much-nih>:

   "I'm still confused as to why Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google don't
    agree amongst themselves to use their own services + XMPP + some
    plugins to openly replicate Facebook and immediately become big
    players in the social business. When your competition is eclipsing
    you like FB is, you need to start making some hard choices. There's
    no collusion if it's an open platform, right? Old and slow. Old and
    slow."

Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> writes:
>
> Some years ago I kicked out an email about the OBiHai devices for
> connecting normal phones to a Google Voice (GV) account.  Those devices
> will stop working on 2014-05-14.
> http://obihai.com/matrix
>
> Google made the announcement some time ago, but never sent an email to
> my GV account.  I just stumbled across the obihai page when providing
> information to a friend who was intrigued by my setup.
>
> Google Voice will continue, but it will be integrated with Google+ and
> no longer be accessible using XMPP.

-- 
"'tis an ill wind that blows no minds."