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Why do you think Google will kill Google Drive randomly...? There's no precedent for something like that, and I can't see what motivation there would be to do

Why do you think Google will kill Google Drive randomly...? There's no precedent for something like that, and I can't see what motivation there would be to do such a thing either. (Disclaimer: I work for Google).

geostyx 9y ago
I hope it doesn't go away... I have 170TB on it.
- victorhooi 9y ago
  I hope so too =). (I work on supporting Google Drive, and I also use it outside of work a lot as well). Also - I saw in another earlier post you mentioned some issue about DriveFS and SecureBoot - feel free to reach out to me if you're still having issues with that?
  - geostyx 9y ago
    Whenever I try to install DriveFS on my Win10 PC with SecureBoot enabled it says "This application is not currently supported on Windows 10 Anniversary Version 1607 or later with secure boot enabled."
dingo_bat 9y ago
Plenty of Google services have been killed/deprecated, even when they were widely used and popular. Google reader, hangout, gtalk, come to mind. I'm wary of getting burned again. So I have decided I will never use any google service for something that I really need to rely on. I have a throwaway gmail for giving out to all kinds of spammy websites. I use google photos for backup but also do a full backup on Onedrive. I have a play music subscription but that's not very sticky anyway, I can switch to Apple music at the first sign of trouble. Also, if you work for google, I'm surprised you think there is no precedent for google discontinuing stuff! It's literally a meme at this point.
- victorhooi 9y ago
  It seems to be a bit of an internet meme, but as another poster noted, the original logic seems to have been lost, and it's now simply cool to quote the meme. You say plenty of Google services have been killed - and you cite 3. But only 1 of those has actually been killed. Google Reader was shutdown - this is somewhat personal, as I was a bit lover of Google Reader as well. However, there was 12 months of notice for the deprecation, there were provisions for migration/exporting all your data - and there were reasons mentioned at the time for why it was deprecated. Basically, the writing was on the wall for RSS for a long time before that. Hangouts wasn't discontinued...in fact, I use it as my main chat application currently (both in my personal life, and at work). GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls).
  - inferiorhuman 9y ago
    > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls). How's that XMPP federation coming along?
  - dingo_bat 9y ago
    > the original logic seems to have been lost I don't know, Google reader is still not up. What logic is lost? > Hangouts wasn't discontinued It is abandoned, which is worse than dicontinued. No new features, some features have been removed. Apparently it's "enterprise" focused now. > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements Wrong. Read up about this tiny thing called federation. Hangouts is a small, walled-garden subset of gtalk. And even hangouts is deprecated now (at least for consumers). Now if you're a consumer and want to use a google service for chat, you have allo. Allo is a dumbed down subset of hangouts. No multi-device support, no web app, no voice, no sms integration, no video. It has stickers though. Guess some people are fine with that. I'm not.
praneshp 9y ago
Because they killed a few products that a vocal minority loved, it's a meme that Google products are killed off. Like many memes, the underlying logic is lost, and it's now cool to quote the meme.
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geostyx 9y ago

I hope it doesn't go away... I have 170TB on it.

victorhooi 9y ago
I hope so too =). (I work on supporting Google Drive, and I also use it outside of work a lot as well). Also - I saw in another earlier post you mentioned some issue about DriveFS and SecureBoot - feel free to reach out to me if you're still having issues with that?
- geostyx 9y ago
  Whenever I try to install DriveFS on my Win10 PC with SecureBoot enabled it says "This application is not currently supported on Windows 10 Anniversary Version 1607 or later with secure boot enabled."

dingo_bat 9y ago

Plenty of Google services have been killed/deprecated, even when they were widely used and popular. Google reader, hangout, gtalk, come to mind. I'm wary of getting burned again. So I have decided I will never use any google service for something that I really need to rely on. I have a throwaway gmail for giving out to all kinds of spammy websites. I use google photos for backup but also do a full backup on Onedrive. I have a play music subscription but that's not very sticky anyway, I can switch to Apple music at the first sign of trouble. Also, if you work for google, I'm surprised you think there is no precedent for google discontinuing stuff! It's literally a meme at this point.

victorhooi 9y ago
It seems to be a bit of an internet meme, but as another poster noted, the original logic seems to have been lost, and it's now simply cool to quote the meme. You say plenty of Google services have been killed - and you cite 3. But only 1 of those has actually been killed. Google Reader was shutdown - this is somewhat personal, as I was a bit lover of Google Reader as well. However, there was 12 months of notice for the deprecation, there were provisions for migration/exporting all your data - and there were reasons mentioned at the time for why it was deprecated. Basically, the writing was on the wall for RSS for a long time before that. Hangouts wasn't discontinued...in fact, I use it as my main chat application currently (both in my personal life, and at work). GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls).
- inferiorhuman 9y ago
  > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements - same contacts, same chat history, same platform. Everybody was basically just migrated across wholesale, and got some nice new features to boot (e.g. group video calls). How's that XMPP federation coming along?
- dingo_bat 9y ago
  > the original logic seems to have been lost I don't know, Google reader is still not up. What logic is lost? > Hangouts wasn't discontinued It is abandoned, which is worse than dicontinued. No new features, some features have been removed. Apparently it's "enterprise" focused now. > GTalk is basically Hangouts, with with improvements Wrong. Read up about this tiny thing called federation. Hangouts is a small, walled-garden subset of gtalk. And even hangouts is deprecated now (at least for consumers). Now if you're a consumer and want to use a google service for chat, you have allo. Allo is a dumbed down subset of hangouts. No multi-device support, no web app, no voice, no sms integration, no video. It has stickers though. Guess some people are fine with that. I'm not.

praneshp 9y ago

Because they killed a few products that a vocal minority loved, it's a meme that Google products are killed off. Like many memes, the underlying logic is lost, and it's now cool to quote the meme.

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