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Looks like you're still pissed at Google for shutting down Google Reader.
by dannyr 9y ago
Looks like you're still pissed at Google for shutting down Google Reader.
- CamperBob2 9y agoIt's reasonable not to trust Google to keep any particular product or service alive once it's no longer politically fashionable inside the company. Their record speaks for itself, loudly.
- dannyr 9y agoSo you want Google to only launch products that are guaranteed to be supported until the end of time? I guess if you don't count Gmail, Search, Android, Drive, Photos, etc, Google's record is pretty bad.
- CamperBob2 9y agoThere were 29 words in my post. Looks like you stopped reading after 14. Any reason for that?
- LeoPanthera 9y agoPhotos is new. It replaced Picasa, which was discontinued.
- tracker1 9y agoPicasa was a pretty great app... as was desktop search widget thingy... I wish that Picasa/Photos were better integrated, and the interface were cleaned up like other MD apps from google... that said, Picasa was a great app for managing photos.
- 2muchcoffeeman 9y agoThere is a complete list of google products and services and what's been canceled and when: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products Google canceled a whole bunch of things, some of which a lot of people used. Now a lot of people are perhaps rightfully sceptical about all their products, if that product is not part of their core. They still have quite a lot of stuff though.
- benchaney 9y agoGoogle's record is pretty bad. If you didn't count Gmail, Search, Andriod, Drive, and Photos, it would go from pretty bad to abysmal.
- intopieces 9y agoI want Google to launch and support the products I like, and not shut them down while I still enjoy using them. I'd also like them to have a clear and unambiguous strategy so I can cleanly move from one product to the next when they do phase out a product. But, "people in Hell want ice water," as they say.
- r00fus 9y agoAnd Fiber rollouts and Wave and XMPP and a whole host [1] of other things it committed to... My favorite unfortunately-named one was Google Keep. [1] https://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns https://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
- LordDragonfang 9y agoAs far as I can tell, that article doesn't actually name Google Keep as being shut down, and was in fact written shortly after Keep was released. Which is a relief, since Keep is exactly what I want from a notes app.
- gwern 9y agoYes, as far as I could tell then in 2013 (or now), Keep was alive. Given that it had just been released (and a sarcastic article on it was actually part of my impetus for that analysis), the survival model only gave it a 61% chance of surviving until 2018. As it's almost 2018 now and Keep is alive, that suggests (on purely statistical grounds) it has a better chance of sticking around for a while.