Google Sets the Date for the End of XMPP with Google Voice
7Priest7:
I sincerely hope obihai will decide to maintain Google voice capabilities.
I already owned a SIP device before I bought this,
if obihai decides to allow the Google voice abilities to be lost, it will effectively ruin the main reason many people bought obi devices.
As a company obihai will never recover if they choose to not adapt their tech to new standards.
Ostracus:
Quote from: 7Priest7 on November 18, 2013, 09:33:43 pm
I sincerely hope obihai will decide to maintain Google voice capabilities.
I already owned a SIP device before I bought this,
if obihai decides to allow the Google voice abilities to be lost, it will effectively ruin the main reason many people bought obi devices.
As a company obihai will never recover if they choose to not adapt their tech to new standards.
Oh I wouldn't say that. Remember this is the team that helped launch the VoIP revolution. I rather doubt Obihas continued existence rests on if Google sneezes or not.
drgeoff:
Quote from: RFC3261 on November 18, 2013, 11:08:09 am
Obihai made a blog post about a year ago touting WebRTC as the "next big thing in cloud communications", and saying their engineers had been working to enhance the existing firmware for WebRTC compatibility. Google has also announced that Hangouts would work with WebRTC "real soon now". It seems like there may be a convergence in plans and schedules (or not, schedules are everything). A number of the open source pbx solutions have WebRTC modules, and they too would like like to be able to use WebRTC to continue to work with GV/Hangouts.
I wonder if OBi's 200 and 300 series devices already support WebRTC, at least to some extent. The 'Call OBi' button on the OBi dashboard page uses WebRTC to call those devices. But what about the 100 series devices which cannot be called from that button? Would OBi contemplate a post May 2014 GV solution which didn't cover the OBi100 and OBi110 models? Time will tell!
7Priest7:
Quote from: Ostracus on November 19, 2013, 06:03:02 am
Oh I wouldn't say that. Remember this is the team that helped launch the VoIP revolution. I rather doubt Obihas continued existence rests on if Google sneezes or not.
ObiHai has not done anything in way of revolution.
I bought this on 02/01/2011
I used callcentric back then in 2011.
Void the ability to use google voice nobody will buy obihai devices over devices from more reputable companies like linksys.
QBZappy:
Quote from: 7Priest7 on November 18, 2013, 09:33:43 pm
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if obihai decides to allow the Google voice abilities to be lost, it will effectively ruin the main reason many people bought obi devices.
I agree with this statement. A loss of GV functionality will directly impact their sales. If we need stats to to prove this, we don't have to go any further than analyze the posts on this board. What do you think is the number one viewed forum on this board. You have to wonder what makes this specific forum of interest to so many people. Obihai has an interest in keeping GV functionality in such a way that it delivers a user experience that people expect from their phones. This funky call back solution will not fly with some people. It certainly will not get the WAF in most households, I would think.
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