This is either really disgusting or super-trollish, depending on whether this person is an actual employee... Latest comment:
_Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence of the Hangouts PM, Kate Cushing._
_Disclaimer: I work for Google._
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