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> Goodbye Google+ Photos, hello +Google Photos! This line represents everything wrong with Google right now.

• thethimble 11y ago
  How so? It's an acknowledgement that forcing Google+ on people was a bad idea and that you can still continue to build awesome products (Google Photos) without a social network. If anything, isn't it a step in the right direction?
  • orik 11y ago
    The problem is we went from Picasa -> Google+ Photos -> +Google Photos? Why does google keep on throwing out branding, spinning down a project, only to spin up another one that does the same thing? Why didn't they go back to the Picasa namesake, with all the branding it has?
    • jacobolus 11y ago
      Apparently "+Google Photos" is just the nickname of the "Google Photos" account on "Google+". The name of the service is "Google Photos", not "+Google Photos".
      • tiredwired 11y ago
        Next year it is Alphabet photos.
        • raverbashing 11y ago
          or just Photos+ or I dunno
          • rakoo 11y ago
            +Photos you mean
        • bryanrasmussen 11y ago
          2016 - Alphabet Photos 2018(jan-aug) - ABC Photos 2018 - ABC DOREMI 2019(jan-feb) - ADORE ME Photos 2019 - Adore.me 2021 - Adore.me & Analphebet.photos
          • liotier 11y ago
            2022 - Analphablet.photos ?
      • mintplant 11y ago
        Yes, "+" is the Google Plus equivalent to Twitter's "@". So "+Google Photos" is analogous to "@GooglePhotos" on Twitter.
        • AllenKids 11y ago
          On the other hand "+" is not happening, please stop.
      • puredemo 11y ago
        Wonky and confusing as fuck.
      • fizzbatter 11y ago
        Yea, that confused the hell out of me. edit: To me, the problem is that they're using `Google+` as branding, and `+` as an identifier like `@`. > Goodbye Twitter@ Photos, Hello @Twitter Photos Would be equally weird, imo. (Albeit, less weird because we're used to @foo and #foo)
    • adventured 11y ago
      It's the same mistake Microsoft made over and over and over again in their lost days from ~2000 to ~2010. It always seems to indicate lack of focus, weak leadership and a surplus of resources. MSN, Bing, Live, MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, IE, Edge, WinFX, .Net, Groove, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, etc. There are a bunch of other examples.
      • Doctor_Fegg 11y ago
        Right. This is what you get if you search Google for Hotmail (as millions of people do): http://imgur.com/CJpskkz http://imgur.com/CJpskkz Is that Hotmail, Live.com, Outlook.com, or Microsoft?
      • neogodless 11y ago
        And those are just the short names... Don't forget Windows Phone 7 Series and beasts like Microsoft® WinFX™ Software Development Kit for Microsoft® Pre-Release Windows Operating System Code-Named "Longhorn", Beta 1 Web Setup.
• Jyaif 11y ago
  Don't you think that the symmetry with the '+' is done on purpose, to be comical?
• RyJones 11y ago
  I was ashamed of the naming of a product I worked on: Windows Live Mobile for Windows Mobile ugh
• kbody 11y ago
  Indeed. Although they should have said: Goodbye +Google+ Photos, hello +Google Photos! but then it would have been ridiculous, wouldn't it? :P
• jinst8gmi 11y ago
  > This line represents everything wrong with Google right now. How about "Goodbye Alphabet's Google+ Photos, hello Alphabet's Google Photos!"