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Both were small upstarts at the time, with Jabber (via the Pidgin client) having significantly more pull in the influential tech demographic than Gmail as just another email service had at the time. Google Talk didn't even exist then.
People remember Gmail because it won. Memory is funny like that, as you say yourself ๐