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Oh. No more open APIs from Google? A shame. That's what used to make them great. I used to be all over the Googleverse. I searched using Google, I did email an
by Derbasti 14y ago
Oh. No more open APIs from Google? A shame. That's what used to make them great.
I used to be all over the Googleverse. I searched using Google, I did email and contact management in GMail, had my calendar in GCal, read my news in GReader, and IMd in Google Talk. And the great thing about these was that they used open standards and I could choose from a multitude of clients for accessin my data.
And then they shut that down one by one. Now, GMail remains the only one of those services that has not been publicly deprecated.
Well, I abandoned ship long ago. Nowadays, Google Hangouts and Google Maps are the only part of Google I use. Occasionally.
- mdwrigh2 14y agoOf the products listed, only Reader has been deprecated.
- Derbasti 14y agoGCal will stop to provide CalDAV support come September (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav) Google Reader will shut down in July (http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cle...) I thought I read that Google Talk was shutting down XMPP syndication. However, I can't find a source for that, so that might be wrong. GMail used to sync using ActiveSync, which is useful for contacts sync. It appears this has been shut down already (http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html)