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people keep trotting out this old story of Google kills products but it hasn't happened in years. Yes they killed some niche products years ago - social network
by zaptheimpaler 6y ago
people keep trotting out this old story of Google kills products but it hasn't happened in years. Yes they killed some niche products years ago - social network/chat and an rss reader.. but the important stuff with huge user bases is stable. gmail, chrome, calendar, maps, docs have never been shutdown and likely never will until the entire tech world changes drastically.
- pgt 6y agoWhat is your definition of 'niche'? https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- smrq 6y agoInbox? Hangouts? Play Music?
- tpxl 6y ago>maps Maps suffered from a nice 100+ times price hike a few years ago and killed plenty of companies that relied on it. I'm currently using maps because it's the most reliable and the product can afford it, but I'll switch to something else as soon as possible. I'm working on getting the local government to sponsor an effort to improve Open Street Maps enough to be better than google.
- transcriptase 6y agoGoogle Finance was 'renovated' and went from a robust portfolio tracking and stock charting tool to a relatively useless news aggregator.