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I really don't understand Google products sometimes. Google+ Photos is different from Google Photos? Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets[0] are all sep
by chimeracoder 11y ago
I really don't understand Google products sometimes. Google+ Photos is different from Google Photos? Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets[0] are all separate things, though somehow interconnected?
And I'm a technical user. I literally don't understand how (or if) non-technical users are expected to be able to understand how these work.
But seriously, this has to take the cake. "Google Photos" is replacing "Google+ Photos", though "Google+" is still around, and you can use Google+ to share photos from "Google Photos" (but not "Google+ Photos", at least not anymore).
[0] Going to drive.google.com and then clicking "New Sheet" will redirect me to docs.google.com, even though Google Sheets was (at least at one point) presented as a "new" product distinct from Google Docs. At least that's how it seemed to me when they launched it.
- ars 11y agoSee here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9888387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9888387 "Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything"
- junto 11y agoI concur. I don't understand why they didn't just announce that they had improved Google+ Photos. As in this is the next big version of the same product. Oh, and we dropped the '+'. Saying that we now have a new product that does the same as the old one, and then migrating people to the new one is just confusing to the user.