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There is no point in betting on something that has a 50/50 chance of disappearing in a few years to store your valuable bookmarks — especially when (I assume) c
by archagon 12y ago
There is no point in betting on something that has a 50/50 chance of disappearing in a few years to store your valuable bookmarks — especially when (I assume) cross-platform support will be lacking.
Use Pinboard instead.
- bioinformatics 12y agoMy first thought when I saw the announcement: "When will it be discontinued?"
- notatoad 12y agoUnless you're like me and you don't consider your bookmarks to be very valuable. If google kills it, so be it. In the meantime, it's a one-click add to chrome and it has a prettier interface than the standard bookmarks manager. might as well use it.
- guyzero 12y agoPinboard will be there when the Earth falls into the sun, for sure.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> There is no point in betting on something that has a 50/50 chance of disappearing in a few years to store your valuable bookmarks If its convenient for use now and there is a a very high probability that, if discontinued, there would be a convenient export mechanism and a significant period in which to use it, then even if there is a "50/50 chance of disappearing in a few years", I don't see why it wouldn't be a good place to store bookmarks.
- fwn 12y agoI feel that this "it will disappear" notion right behind every Google announcement slowly tends to get some witty meme. We all know every service will end.
- threeseed 12y agoReally so you expect Google Search or GMail to just wrap up at some point ? Be serious. It is those services from Google that don't contribute to revenue to be wary of.
- fwn 12y agoI'm with you. I should've written: We all know every service will end, therefore this notion is useless. I doubt that the average google product lifetime undercuts the average overall product lifetime.