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Would love to know how you find their other products unacceptable, but giving them unfettered access to your private communication is okay...
by toasterlovin 8y ago
Would love to know how you find their other products unacceptable, but giving them unfettered access to your private communication is okay...
- Walkman 8y agoIt's about the stupid trend they kill things which have not enough interest. That's why we can't have nice things...
- akerl_ 8y agoKilling off products that don't have enough interest doesn't seem to be stupid at all. That's how they shift dev effort onto developing new services and extending services that do have sufficient interest.
- colecut 8y agoIt sounds like his main concern is the product disappearing, and Gmail is one of the least likely to disappear.
- magicalist 8y ago> It sounds like his main concern is the product disappearing but it's a physical product and a service that isn't going anywhere...
- zapzupnz 8y agoIt remains a technological product, though, and one doesn't like to buy into tech ecosystems without a full assurance of ongoing support. Chromecast Audio being discontinued today is one thing, and Google does promise continued support for the product … but Google's track record may not bear that out. In the case of some sort of critical security update or a theoretical future update to pick up a hitherto undetected, show-stopping bug, there's little assurance Google would look after its customers — they've too much of a tendency to introduce something then rescind the product not long later, something that doesn't inspire much confidence in whether or not there will be ongoing, high-quality software updates to support the products.
- bearcobra 8y agoIt seems just as unlikely that Cast is going to disappear