• @wahming
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    8 months ago

    No surprise. Nobody talks about new Google projects any more, since the assumption is they’ll be gone in a year.

    Edit: Not even hyperbole. This very article states Keen was launched in 2020 and stopped receiving updates in 2021. They shelved it in literally a year.

    • @Fisk400@feddit.nu
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      298 months ago

      At least they didnt intigrate it with Gmail or some other insane bloat they like to do.

      • @wahming
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        188 months ago

        I’d have appreciated them integrating Google reader with Gmail instead of killing it off

        • TheHarpyEagle
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          38 months ago

          Cursed with multiple accounts to this day for a stupid service they could barely force me to use.

    • RedEye FlightControl
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      228 months ago

      My understanding is that Google “rates” its leaders by the number and types of projects they develop. Ergo there are a lot of people working on disparate items that often overlap, because it’s “their” project. Once the project completes, they get their credit, stop caring, and move on to the next. It is said this is why google creates then kills so much. It’s by design, essentially. The products they keep are the ones that make the most ad revenue.

    • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yup. Even if Google came out with a really cool service tomorrow that I found far better than alternatives, I still wouldn’t use it, because unless I’m very lucky, it’ll be axed at some point. And Google has only themselves to blame.

      I’ll happily shout from the rooftops about my dislike of Apple (their philosophy, faux environmentalism, price-gouging, anti-competitive, anti-repair BS, I could go on for a while), but when was the last time they did this? The fucking Newton? Sure the iPod was axed, but I think it’s fairer to say the market axed MP3 players, rather than Apple axed the iPod.

      If Apple announces something, you can be almost certain it’ll still be around in a decade.

      Look at Apple Maps. It was an absolute joke when it came out and people mocked and memed it relentlessly.

      If Google were in that position, they’d have just scrapped it and moved on to their next project that’d probably be scrapped too.

      Fuck Google’s dumb businesses practices, and fuck them for making me say something to Apple’s credit. Makes me feel dirty.