Google Kills Third-Party GTalk Clients
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
This morning Google finally shut down third-party access to GTalk - basically, the Pidgin protocol users, and that included Adium, the multi-protocol IM client that I've been running for a long time. True, Google has created a Chat app for iOS/iPadOS, and that allows me to stay in contact with folks that are still on GTalk, but it's sad to see the openness of the IM space shrink to the point of insignificance.
Adium used to be able to handle ICQ, Yahoo, Talk, AOL IM, Twitter, Facebook IM, but one by one, those have all shut down, and Talk was the last one. Sad to see it go. But it was the last Intel-based app I ran on my MacBook Pro, so now it's native Apple Silicon apps... which is something.