A history of Google’s messaging apps and how a lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership has led to a decade and a half of failed messaging platforms (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
A history of Google’s messaging apps and how a lack of any kind of top-down messaging leadership has led to a decade and a half of failed messaging platforms  —  Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.  —  Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform …