Quote from: vtsnaab on May 02, 2014, 09:49:11 AM
And I reply to that assertion thusly=>
I have read and read and read until my eyes could read not even one more word - and have been checking this forum and many other info sources for many WEEKS already.
The OP of this thread was posted by me for the exact reasons stated AFTER already doing a huge amount of reading - and I am still studying what info as I may find.
I'm not clear on what you (as the OP) have concluded from this topic, or your research, thus far, if anything.
I assume that you know that you soon won't be able to use a GV account directly on your Obi as before -- it won't connect, won't make outgoing calls, won't receive calls, so you might as well delete it from the Obi when GV stops supporting XMPP. (Probably
should delete it, for security and other reasons.)
One might conclude, therefore, that to continue using the Obi device, one must get a SIP/VOIP provider, which will likely not be entirely free of cost.
Your GV account(s) will still work, still record voicemail, still forward calls to a phone number (e.g. your cell phone, or a landline), still forward calls to Google talk/chat on your PC, and so forth, at least as far as I know. In short, anything you can do now via your GV web page will continue to work, until Google gives notice that it will change. (There's nothing you have been doing with your GV web page that has anything directly to do with your Obi.)
I assume also that you know that GV has not announced that it will stop forwarding to phone numbers (it's one of the things you can do on your GV web page), so any VOIP service you put on your Obi that includes a (US) phone number, can be the target of that forwarding. Maybe GV will stop forwarding or charge for it, maybe not; but I'd expect them to give us months of notice either way.
Are my assumptions wrong, and you are not convinced of any of those statements? Is the issue that those making such statements could be just making up what they (we) are saying, and you need something closer to a reference to a primary source before you will believe it? Or do you agree with the statements, but have other questions that are included in your original posting that are not covered by my statements and assumptions?
In a sense, once GV stops being a direct option on the Obi device, it opens up all sorts of other options, such as selection of a SIP/VOIP provider and what features to purchase. Maybe too many options, too much flexibility? Too many providers and not enough comparative objective reviews? Too many
very technical options?
Perhaps your restatement of the OP question could include a summary (in your own words) of what you think has been communicated clearly and authoritatively, and what yet remains unanswered or at least not reliably answered to your satisfaction.