3 ms·
Quote from The Verge on Currents: "This is not the first time Google has rolled out a product called Currents; it was previously a magazine app that went throug
by amaccuish 6y ago
Quote from The Verge on Currents: "This is not the first time Google has rolled out a product called Currents; it was previously a magazine app that went through a few iterations before becoming Google News."
I find Google utterly confusing. It's a constant stream of, rename this product here, make two products that do almost the same thing there, merge these two products but without combining the key features of both. A total mess.
It's not just retiring old products, but creations like the Google Nest Home Hub Plus Max Whatever.
- ValentineC 6y ago> I find Google utterly confusing. It's a constant stream of, rename this product here, make two products that do almost the same thing there, merge these two products but without combining the key features of both. A total mess. Just a few months ago, they had Google Hangouts and Google Hangsout Meet (now just called Google Meet). I don't know how it works inside Google, but they really should centralise branding for anything public.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoAnd Google Meet, which is supposedly replacing Hangouts, is missing some features. If you want to hold a quick video call with somebody, you can't have Google Meet ring their devices. Instead, you have to send them an email and hope they're looking. I just switched to Slack instead. I'm trying hard to imagine the dysfunction going on in the product organization. Maybe the Google Meet PM looks at their user numbers and touts that they're rising (from zero), even while the sum total of people using Google's video call products falls. Google Meet PM gets a promotion and then finds another product to kill and replace with a less featureful product that shows large user growth from zero.