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What happened to Hangouts and Android? I know Reader was discontinued, but Google is hardly shutting down widely used services regularly. In fact, it's rare eno

by grkvlt 11y ago

What happened to Hangouts and Android? I know Reader was discontinued, but Google is hardly shutting down widely used services regularly. In fact, it's rare enough that, as with Reader, it is big news when it happens, and there's a huge backlash. This suggests, in fact, that there is actually an expectation that Google does and will keep products around for a long time, not the opposite. People have a common tendency to extrapolate from low-N or even single events to produce an inaccurate picture of future possibilities. I'm quite happy with GMail, Drive, Android and so on, and don't expect them to vanish any time soon.

Arkanosis 11y ago
Reader was discontinued, Hangouts has been sold as a replacement for GTalk with missing features (history, compatibility with xmpp…), Android is forcing you to use Google+ everyday more than before (and I really don't want to use it — I mean, really). I'm still using GMail and Android, but I'm not happy with how their UI change, and with how the latter puts Google everywhere (it's a bit better with Cyanogen, but still). Maybe I'm extrapolating, maybe not. The only thing I'm sure of, is that when trust has been lost, it's very hard to get it back.