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phao | 3 years ago

Super sincere question.

> Google's reputation for not supporting things long term

I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me.

Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?

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futureshock|3 years ago

Very sincerely, you must read just about zero tech news. Google has been infamous for this ever since they shut down Google Reader in 2013. For about the past 10 years they are a company adrift that can no longer launch new products without getting absolutely ridiculed. Everyday consumers have lost their faith in the company because they are so used to getting jerked around anything G. People I know wont touch a G chat app because they know it wont last 6 months.

phao|3 years ago

> Very sincerely, you must read just about zero tech news.

Not 0, but really not much, that is true.

I remember the shutdown of google reader. I tried it once, but let go of it before it was shut down.

But I really didn't know google had this kind of reputation.

kalmi10|3 years ago

https://killedbygoogle.com/

I miss Google Reader and Google Wave the most.

nitrixion|3 years ago

I really miss Google Play Music. For my needs, it was the perfect streaming service.

Youtube Music is a huge step back. Spotify is far too playlist and recommendation happy, I want to listen to albums not curated lists. Tidal is decent, but similar to Spotify. Apple Music is the one I haven't tried for more than a couple of days and I don't recall what I didn't like about it.

baq|3 years ago

Gmail and drive are pretty much the only safe havens. The rest… how many its own chat apps will google kill this year?

metaltyphoon|3 years ago

Yes, they do. I personally would never put a single service on GCP just out of principle.