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pretty sure youtube/adsense/adwords/google/android/chrome aren't in beta everything else at Google is pretty much an internal startup and insignificant on thei

• hbn 3y ago
  Android is basically the best example of Google's perpetual beta problem. They're constantly adding features and then silently dropping them a few years later because they were forgotten about and no one wanted to maintain them. They constantly deprecate apps and replace them with worse ones, they redesign the notification shade every other update, they'll say they're committing to tablets every few years but apps having tablet-optimized modes lasts until the app is redesigned in a couple years and they stopped caring about tablets by that point. Google treats its users like beta testers, but instead of getting paid you pay them with your data and/or money. I went through the wringer enough times that I finally bought an iPhone and have no desire to go back. Was I shocked that last time I turned on my Pixel 3 and updated it, the notification shade, messaging app, Play Store, settings app, and nearly everything else was completely redesigned? No, not at all.
  • rurp 3y ago
    I couldn't agree more, Android updates are extremely painful. Which basic functionality got broken, hidden, degraded, or removed this time? What new features that I don't want are now in my face? Which elements got redesigned for no reason, and will be redesigned again next update? I would pay good money for an option to get long term security updates with zero other changes.
• milesward 3y ago
  Nope, GCP is now bigger than youtube.
  • throwawayadvsec 3y ago
    yeah I did forget GCP