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> every month we have a new product/service of Google being deprecated Indeed! Just ~~~last month~~~ 62 months ago they shut down Reader. (I see that you're h
by matt4077 8y ago
> every month we have a new product/service of Google being deprecated
Indeed! Just ~~~last month~~~ 62 months ago they shut down Reader.
(I see that you're hedging with the reference to Maps. But I'd love if this time, we wouldn't make a single event a 10-year talking point)
- ldiracdelta 8y agoGoogle Reader still hurts.
- pkroll 8y agoThat one hurt, but "single event" is a little off. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon... (nearly a hundred in 12 years, is the answer to the question "how many then?")
- llampx 8y agoGoogle Reader is like "the one that got away" because the landscape changed so fundamentally with it, that no other product could take its place. If Google had killed Gmail we would still have Yahoo mail and Hotmail and what not. We would bitch and moan but life would go on. Reader was... different.