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Wow, a lot of these are ridiculous or silly. I welcome corrections to my list. If you object and think it should be listed as Dead, that's fine, that's your o
by VikingCoder 8y ago
Wow, a lot of these are ridiculous or silly. I welcome corrections to my list. If you object and think it should be listed as Dead, that's fine, that's your opinion, and I respect it. To me, some of these are absurd to list as Dead. Here's my list:
Tez was rebranded, it didn't die.
Encrypted Search basically replaced unencrypted search.
Chromebook Pixel, yeah, now it's a Pixelbook.
Google Showtimes, yeah, now it's built in to search.
Google Nexus, yeah, now it's Pixel phones.
Nexus Player, yeah, now it's Chromecast / Android TV / Aria.
Google X, it was re-orged, and not consumer-facing anyway.
Picasa is kind of odd to complain about, because Google Photos is better in almost every way.
Google Play edition of Android phone, yeah, phone models go away all the time.
Google TV is kind of odd to complain about, because now there's Chromecast / Android TV, and Youtube TV.
Google Chrome Frame, we should celebrate IE dying.
Nexus Q, yeah, it's now Chromecast / Android TV.
Google Chart API is still running, unless I'm mistaken.
Google Video... Yeah, now it's YouTube. Why are we complaining about this?
Google Sky Map was donated and made open source, is now "Sky Map". This is a victory.
Noop Programming Language. Come on. It was literally two engineers. I'm all for holding Google accountable for killing things we love (Google Reader, chief among them), but this is ridiculous. It's also open source.
Google Dictionary, it's not folded in to Search.
Google Real-Time Search is basically folded in to Search, right?
Google Hotspot is now folded in to Maps, right?
Google Ride Finder is now folded in to Maps, right? At least Uber and Lyft are, right?
Grand Central is basically rebranded as Voice, right?
Google Page Creator is basically Google Sites, right?
Writely became Google Docs, right?
- panarky 8y agoGreat points, this list is ridonkulous. Tech companies quit, rename, reorganize and merge products all the time. Is Google particularly worse than other tech firms? I can think of some pretty big Microsoft pivots, and I don't begrudge them their choices at all. Media Center Kinect Zune PlaysForSure DRM Microsoft Money Windows Home Server Microsoft Kin Phone Microsoft Mobile, previously known as Nokia Windows 10 Mobile The Band TechNet Hotmail Live Messenger Live Mesh Groove Music Pass Android and iOS versions of Groove Music Encarta Windows Small Business Server Flight Simulator Microsoft Works Microsoft FrontPage Windows Embedded Automotive, formerly Microsoft Auto, Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive