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If this happens Google+ is dead. Photos seems to be the main good thing people have to say about it.

by k-mcgrady 12y ago

dudus 12y ago
Maybe that's the point.
gress 12y ago
People have been saying Google+ is dead since it launched.
- bronson 12y ago
  And they've been right! ob Swingers quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuInkEF_dQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuInkEF_dQg
Gustomaximus 12y ago
For me G+ wasn't so bad, it was kinda like Hacker news is to Reddit in my social world. But the mobile app has some serious battery drain so I couldn't keep it on my phone. A few times it out drained my battery while one the charger! I found the removal interesting, for me, as once I removed the mobile app I stopped using it a news point and didn't go to the desktop versions either something I has done fairly regularily.
cookiecaper 12y ago
Google+ has never really accomplished what it was meant to accomplish. Maybe it's best if they the de-bundle the good, scrap the brand, and try again from a different angle. Maybe then we can have the + operator back for search queries.
- chatmasta 12y ago
  Well, except it did accomplish one key goal. Before Goole hangouts, Google could only estimate the identity of its users. Now, it knows exactly who you are.
perrylaj 12y ago
I do like Google+, but am not a regular user. Might use it more if it had more activity since I like the way it encourages networking around ideas more than networking around who I already know. I've never used Facebook for that reason -- my social circle is somewhat small and close-knit. All that is a prelude to my total agreement with you. Of all the features of G+, Photos is the one I use most. Auto-Awesome and now Stories are both extremely cool. When combined with the simple filtered sharing G+ allows, it pretty much comprises the majority of my G+ use. I'd be very surprised if they didn't keep them tightly related. I noticed the other day that Docs and Drive were also being somewhat separated from each-other (unless I completely misread the popup for the 2 seconds I glanced). Perhaps they are simply realizing that the "One Google Social Everything" approach wasn't all they thought it would be, and are separating things out some to reduce some systematic complexity it's introduced? Interesting to see where it leads.
Zigurd 12y ago
"Photos" isn't just one category. Snapshot photography with smartphones is the biggest part of photography now. Social networks are the center of the snapshot photography universe. This is not going to change that. A place to store and share serious photos, where they don't get automatically "awesome" or transcoded is a different thing. In the next couple of years prosumer cameras are going to lay siege to the last bastions of professional gear and the amount of high-resolution images that could be printed and that merit some digital darkroom work is going to go way up. That's enough reason for Google to get serious about photographers who are equipped to be serious. But, on top of all that, Android is getting serious photo APIs that will enable Android to be used in prosumer and pro photo gear. You can already buy a Samsung Google-logo (i.e. it has Google's proprietary apps) Android mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera. Google+ can be a gateway to a presentation that's appropriate to high quality camera images. But this category of photography needs its own specialized set of capabilities, storage, and possibly pricing.

If this happens Google+ is dead. Photos seems to be the main good thing people have to say about it.

dudus 12y ago

Maybe that's the point.

gress 12y ago

People have been saying Google+ is dead since it launched.

bronson 12y ago
And they've been right! ob Swingers quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuInkEF_dQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuInkEF_dQg

Gustomaximus 12y ago

For me G+ wasn't so bad, it was kinda like Hacker news is to Reddit in my social world. But the mobile app has some serious battery drain so I couldn't keep it on my phone. A few times it out drained my battery while one the charger! I found the removal interesting, for me, as once I removed the mobile app I stopped using it a news point and didn't go to the desktop versions either something I has done fairly regularily.

cookiecaper 12y ago

Google+ has never really accomplished what it was meant to accomplish. Maybe it's best if they the de-bundle the good, scrap the brand, and try again from a different angle. Maybe then we can have the + operator back for search queries.

chatmasta 12y ago
Well, except it did accomplish one key goal. Before Goole hangouts, Google could only estimate the identity of its users. Now, it knows exactly who you are.

perrylaj 12y ago

I do like Google+, but am not a regular user. Might use it more if it had more activity since I like the way it encourages networking around ideas more than networking around who I already know. I've never used Facebook for that reason -- my social circle is somewhat small and close-knit. All that is a prelude to my total agreement with you. Of all the features of G+, Photos is the one I use most. Auto-Awesome and now Stories are both extremely cool. When combined with the simple filtered sharing G+ allows, it pretty much comprises the majority of my G+ use. I'd be very surprised if they didn't keep them tightly related. I noticed the other day that Docs and Drive were also being somewhat separated from each-other (unless I completely misread the popup for the 2 seconds I glanced). Perhaps they are simply realizing that the "One Google Social Everything" approach wasn't all they thought it would be, and are separating things out some to reduce some systematic complexity it's introduced? Interesting to see where it leads.

Zigurd 12y ago

"Photos" isn't just one category. Snapshot photography with smartphones is the biggest part of photography now. Social networks are the center of the snapshot photography universe. This is not going to change that. A place to store and share serious photos, where they don't get automatically "awesome" or transcoded is a different thing. In the next couple of years prosumer cameras are going to lay siege to the last bastions of professional gear and the amount of high-resolution images that could be printed and that merit some digital darkroom work is going to go way up. That's enough reason for Google to get serious about photographers who are equipped to be serious. But, on top of all that, Android is getting serious photo APIs that will enable Android to be used in prosumer and pro photo gear. You can already buy a Samsung Google-logo (i.e. it has Google's proprietary apps) Android mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera. Google+ can be a gateway to a presentation that's appropriate to high quality camera images. But this category of photography needs its own specialized set of capabilities, storage, and possibly pricing.