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One day I fully expect to wake up to find my phone issuing me the warning "Google Fi has been discontinued. Please find an alternative carrier by the end of the
by elif 3y ago
One day I fully expect to wake up to find my phone issuing me the warning "Google Fi has been discontinued. Please find an alternative carrier by the end of the month"
Or
"Google Photos has been replaced by our new service, Google Pixa. Please back up your photos as they cannot be transferred to our new service"
It's almost like their project/team structure depends on cannibalisation.
I already lost my wedding playlist (2019) because Google decided to rebrand Google Play to YouTube Music.
- everybodyknows 3y ago> lost my wedding playlist It's the new industry normal. Amazon Prime Music zeroed out all user's investment of time spent crafting playlists, five months back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33521374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33521374
- esalman 3y agoI have used Google products for free all my life. In last year or so I was forced to pay for two products - one is my wife's Google Fi phone and another is a friend's Google apps suite. Both of these are ticking time bombs. These are like sensitive data that you haven't backed up. Might end in catastrophe any time. My wife's contract should be up sometime next year and that's when she'll switch to a different carrier. I also might migrate from Google apps by the end of next month.
- climb_stealth 3y agoMan, don't even say that! I'm seriously worried about Google Photos going away. I'm running Ente in parallel but it just isn't there yet. Especially on iOS.
- JohnFen 3y agoA good reminder that any of your data that exists solely in the cloud is at risk. If you're into using the cloud to store stuff, be sure to keep a copy of that stuff locally as well.