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They removed all of the most useful and important features and dumbed it down significantly. It had a resizable graph, with the ability to quickly compare two
by fragsworth 8y ago
They removed all of the most useful and important features and dumbed it down significantly.
It had a resizable graph, with the ability to quickly compare two or more ticker symbols, and news icons right on the graph that showed significant events for the company.
It also had a great customizable table to manage your own portfolio, and a ton of data that mostly seems to be missing now.
It was the best free finance tool available in the world, by far. Now it's just another piece of garbage like any random finance website.
- kbrosnan 8y agoNote that all the great features were implemented in Flash. The cost of documenting the behaviors and building a team to reimplement was deemed non-essential.
- EpicEng 8y ago>all the great features... deemed non-essential. Sounds like a winning strategy.
- kbrosnan 8y agoGoogle's actions made it clear that Google Finance has been an unowned or skeleton project for several years. Google never made a Google Finance app for Android. Just because there is a vocal audience that likes the old product does not mean that reimplementing the flash features is a good use of resources.
- AnssiH 8y agoThey did have a Finance app, but they dropped it from Play Store in 2015 after not updating it for years. https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-quietly-removes-its-finance-app-from-the-play-store/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-quietly-remo...