[Operators] Future of XMPP Re: The Google issue

[Maxim Ignatenko]

On 28 November 2013 12:44, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
> Without Google, XMPP (S2S) simply doesn't have enough of a mass userbase
> to be viable, IMO.  The mass markey simply doesn't care about technical
> "quality".  (Witness every mobile-messaging-app-du-jour overnight ending
> up with more users than non-google S2S-enabled XMPP..)

That's because there is no:
1) push notifications support for Android/iOS in popular server implementations
2) decent mobile client