Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. Howe...