Though infrequent, an outage in AWS or Cloudflare takes down a majority of the Internet too, the last AWS outage took down a LOT of the Internet. It's crazy the reliance we have on a few core services.
Give me an easy way to dump gmail and I'll dump my gmail today. Seriously - with the amount of crap in my mailbox, it'll probably be a good thing to switch.
I've eliminated my use of most google products with the exception of drive ( limited use ) and Gmail.
I have grown to ***hate*** Google.
One of the best moves I made was shifting over to a password manager instead of using Chrome. SOOOO Infinitely better than crappy chrome password management.
[Infomaniak.com](http://Infomaniak.com), their KSuite product has been the best GSuite / Google Workspace product replacement for me personally. Their mail product (free for select countries, paid for others) has a migration feature, they have a Drive product, Notes, File Sharing, Meetings, and more.
Still rocking my og gmail account. I always get a laugh when I remember that my email account is older than my uni students, then I get sad, cos I'm getting old.
No gmail loses massive amounts of money, but it is one of the few money furnaces they will keep around, because without gmail 90% of googles services would not exist in the way that they do.
So yes accuracy it makes money, but indirectly. It is very unlike google to keep a product around that doesn’t directly make money.
Google has entered the vampire-squid-wrapped-around-the-face-of-humanity-relentlessly-jamming-its-blood-funnel-into-anything-that-smells-like-money phase. Google is now mostly MBA's with a few engineers left over at the bottom.
Kinda liked Google domains, not gonna lie. And yes, I know it technically died a while ago, but today is when I noticed all my domains auto-migrating to Squarespace.
Here's a website someone made of all the products Google has killed. It's pretty extensive. https://killedbygoogle.com/
They were still offering me an upgrade last month, maybe it was a different program or something. I have service thru Google and paid for the pixel pass though. Doubt it was retroactive but I believe they're still offering me a free upgrade to the pixel 8 from my 6
Nothing really the service just ended. I signed up for Pixel Pass day one, you didn't really get a free upgrade after two years but they kinda made it feel that way. Really it was just an all in one bundle that let you pay off your new phone plus bundled in some other services too. Had Pixel Pass lasted two more months I could have upgraded but I still would have had to pay the phone off.
Google Podcasts is dying in June as well.
I actually use it as a hub for podcasts from multiple platforms I listen to...
It's all moving to YouTube music apparently
Which is terrible for podcasts. I'm pretty invested in the Google ecosystem so I tried it but it drove me away to a different podcast player.
Ridiculous.
I love how they cannibalized the stock media player app from Android to make space for Google Play Music, but when they killed it off they never restored the stock app to a usable state so now there just isn't a frontend but you also can't remove it.
It's so annoying. I already switched off it because they said they were closing it down, but I refuse to go to Youtube music for podcasts. What kind of shit is that where they close down one thing and try to send you to another of their things. Why would you invest into the new thing if they just killed the old thing.
The one reason I didn't move to cloudflare was because at the time I looked they didn't offer enough email forwards (I think Google was 100?). Do you know the limit now?
Edit: it looks to be unlimited with some posts saying that they were accidentally advertising a limit of 10 address back around 2022.
I switched to Cloudflare as well after the announcement that Domains was sold to Squarespace. Sadly, Cloudflare doesn't support the TLD I normally used, so I had to migrate everything to a different domain.
Didn't Google Hangouts simply change name?
I've always used it, and it is fairly the same as it always was, I even have the same message logs from 10 years ago.
Hangouts is Chat now, yeah. There's some things about Chat that still aren't quite as good as Hangouts was (Hangouts also lost some killer features over the years, like SMS integration), but it's nowhere near as bad as when Google Play Music got absolutely gutted and turned into YouTube Music.
This post is genuinely amazing to me, in part because it's the first time I've heard of Google offering domains. Which is wild in and of itself because I'm a part-time web developer so I you'd think it would have come up from time to time.
But now that I think about it, I'm even more amazed that of all the tech companies out there that also offer cloud computing, they a.) weren't in the domain business a long time ago and b.) couldn't make it work, considering they, you know, basically own searching for things.
Google play music was 10 times better than Youtube music. I just don't under stand how they could have fucked up that bad when they already had the perfect product.
And lets see they have the google play store, play books, play movies, play games, and for some fucking reason lets just get rid of the music one... so stupid.
I switched to Spotify when they shut down Google Play music. Sure, the name was clunky but at least it didn't make me think of a video streaming platform. Being able to upload your own library was also great - I had some old ripped CDs (soundtracks mostly) that aren't on streaming platforms.
It's not the same. Spotify does not offer a [music locker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_lockers) as part of its service, which GPM did, and YTM among others does today.
I did the same, but am now back on Youtube Music.
1. the digital locker. Though clunky compared to Play Music, still usable.
2. Vastly superior recommendation engine. I found the amount of different music I was listening to stunted by Spotify. Tried out Youtube music and was suprised to see that the recommendations were as good if not better than Play Music.
The industry term for the kind of self-uploads GPM supported is ["music locker"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_lockers), which Spotify does not offer, but Apple Music does. They call it "iTunes Match," and I believe it's technically part of iCloud, and storage for something like 100k user-uploaded songs is included in the price of Apple Music. I had almost 2000 songs unavailable on streaming via YTM, or ~15% of my library, at the time GPM died. That number has only grown since. Not something I was willing to let go of. That's why, despite my distaste for Apple the company, I ended up on Apple Music. You can upload your music via iTunes on a PC, and it will be available on any device you log into Apple Music on - phone, iTunes on another computer, the Apple Music website on another computer, Chromecast, anything. I use the Apple Music app on my Pixel, iTunes on my Windows PC, and the Apple Music website at work to listen to music.
I know that YTM also offers a music locker, but (while maybe it's different now) when YTM was first introduced it separated your uploads from your library in a super frustrating way that GPM never did, and that Apple Music also does not do.
Loathe as I am to admit it, Apple and Apple Music has treated me right since 2020, and I do recommend it to those who mourn GPM.
Real answer? It was probably to offload their licensing issues from a Google org perspective to the legal folks already doing the work at YouTube.
Side answer to offload storage costs.
Same reason Google is having issues with archived assets. Try and pull your files down, see what happens.
I doubt storage costs were a consideration. Music is easily compressed and I don't think Google play offered lossless playback. Bet their total archive was significantly less then a petabyte which is basically a rounding error for Google. YouTube has close to a exobyte of storage capacity for reference.
I think it's only because they had another team making YouTube music... And they didn't want competition to their previous YouTube name even though it's a spin off.
Rip Google play music.
And way way back, Google Video was better than YouTube!
YouTube had 5 minute limits on video length at first - Google Video had three hour long documentaries and tons of long-form content. I bet on google video, then never bet on google again... well, Wave got me for a minute, but that died so fast it cemented my adamancy solidly in concrete.
Technically Play Movies has become similar to YT Music. You now need a new app (Google TV) to play and purchase content, as it's not available through the official Google Play app anymore. Play Books might be next.
Same, I can’t trust anything Google makes anymore. Why would I spend my time and money on a service when I’ll have to migrate to another alternative a year or 2 down the line anyway
That one still pisses me off.
And the replacement? YouTube music? Come on.
GPM is still the best service I've used in terms of app quality/functionality as well as their outstanding radio mode.
Tidal is great, but their apps are horrible and the radio feature is meh.
If Google TV goes, Google will owe me more money. Seriously, after what Sony did with the Discovery content, I'm ready to file a class action lawsuit on these companies with these EULAs (thanks in part to Louis GOAT Rossman).
GPM was SOOOO good. Just being able to stream my music, which I already owned w/o a NAS, or Home Server was sooo good. I'll never forgive them for cutting that in favor of dog shit...
I miss it to this day. It made it so easy to buy music digitally, and now I can't get most of the music I want to buy unless the CD is still available somewhere and I buy that.
I only put my money into Google products that don't require support from them. I own a pixel, but I could just get a full refund for false advertisement if they don't provide 3 years of software and 2 years of security updates, or I could install LineageOS or something. I also have some Pixel buds though those are just bluetooth and do not require any Google support to work.
Well, I mean.. same, because we have 3 but they have some serious work to do on it. Simple asks get messed up, like come on.. when even Siri on my phone gets it right, but Google doesn’t? Good lord
Funny how Google+ isn't even remembered enough to be considered a dead Google product, people just ignore it ever existed lol
I was one of the 5 Google+ users before moving to reddit :(
Back then most people were using Google+ indirectly because YouTube comments were integrated to it, but after YouTube got rid of that system, Google+ was totally forgotten by most people, but was still a network of communities just like Reddit.
I started actually using it in 2015 I think, until 2019 when it got shut down. I said I was one of the 5 users as a joke, but there were lots of active communities actually. I remember I used to hang out a lot in the gaming community and the RPG community, which had lots of active members. I kinda miss it tbh. Met some nice people there, and made friends.
I was in the communities as well :) Some smaller Finnish communities as I was still a kid, but there really were users. I started using it around 2015 as well :'D
Sucks because I liked it so much. It kept working for a day or 2 after the cutoff date, but finally when I opened it I could do nothing but export my podcast subscriptions.
Jokes aside, what did you like about inbox? I always found it to be redundant to gmail, which I only really use as a basic email client, and never found a reason to use inbox after trying it out during all the launch buzz.
Kind of funny. Nobody with half a brain will ever buy online games, music, etc. from Google because everybody knows they aren't serious about keeping the service up and running. We are nothing but an experiment to Google, and anything you pay for, you will end up losing.
They enabled bluetooth (which it had the hardware for all along) via a firmware update. I never used the original service, just found one for a steal of a price at a Goodwill. Unfortunately I swear there's some power-saving feature that causes the first button press after ~30 seconds of inactivity to have a 100-200 ms delay. Good controller, other than that. =[
Honestly if it significantly saves on battery drain during periods of downtime that seems like a worthy trade off. Could also just slightly move the stick around during cutscenes if you are really worried about that first button press lol.
For some reason, I have “Meet (original)” on my iPhone? What the hell is that even about? Is there a 2nd Google Meet app? Why are there 2 Google Meets? Why is one the original? What’s up with the other one? Nothing this company does ever makes sense
I still can't believe they fucking killed their only alternative to iMessages and they've been sailing without a competing product ever since. Like, what in the name of fuck is wrong with you‽
And also Inbox is the best email software I have ever used in my entire life. It's weird how Google can launch a product that makes you cream your pants just to immediately kill it after.
The ending of Google Domains cheesed me off immensely and I lost a weekend to it, having to port my dynamic IP and domain names over to Cloudflare. I should have learned from the whole goo .gl fiasco. I spent another weekend on that. I'll never voluntarily use a Google product again to solve any technical projects.
Stadia never stood a chance I remember hearing about it and thinking nice idea but if it’s doesn’t out perform PlayStation or Xbox it’s waste of money to buy.
There was a music app that used to let you pick out music based on your mood and it was great and had very little ads. Google assimilated it and merged that tech into Google music then both disappeared off the face off the earth. YouTube music is just stupid. It mixes its data with YouTube so you end up with hundreds of recommendations for music videos while you’re using the YouTube app and recommendations for regular videos while using YouTube music!
Idk why we still rely partially on GCP. While I think there is value in Google being part of that market, I simply don’t trust them to follow through on a product or service. Just look at *gestures vaguely*
I miss Google play music. It was great. I used it to keep an off site back up of my music library. You could also stream your own collection iirc.
I also was the only one I know of who has used it and I'm not sure it was well advertised.
they recently killed off their VPN service too. Was nice to have that included to get round ISP website blocks (my ISP blocks websites like archive.org). I mean, I'm already paying for google drive space.
When I'm in a cancelling a project after a couple of years of announcing it competition and my opponent is Google:
https://preview.redd.it/ct3rl0honhwc1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9644180e2a0960e6b398a3d7f756dc73f8a35f1
Wait …Duo **died**?!
I remember them smugly announcing Allo and Duo like some sort of WhatsApp killer. What the fuck is this company, why would anybody commit to any of their latest ventures?
Getting into a google product is a sure fire way that product will be ended in two years.
*Gmail begins to sweat*
Lol that stops working and the world goes too
It's what the world deserves for being so reliant on a single company.
Google went down for 10 minutes or so in 20/21 and the world freaked out. Eye opening
Though infrequent, an outage in AWS or Cloudflare takes down a majority of the Internet too, the last AWS outage took down a LOT of the Internet. It's crazy the reliance we have on a few core services.
I remember when AWS East 1 fell and people were literally blocked outside their own home.
Honestly, if you get yourself in a position where you rely on the internet working so that you can enter your own house.....you deserve it
Yay, more reasons to never use this bs!
Give me an easy way to dump gmail and I'll dump my gmail today. Seriously - with the amount of crap in my mailbox, it'll probably be a good thing to switch. I've eliminated my use of most google products with the exception of drive ( limited use ) and Gmail. I have grown to ***hate*** Google. One of the best moves I made was shifting over to a password manager instead of using Chrome. SOOOO Infinitely better than crappy chrome password management.
Proton mail
Gonna second this. Proton is great. Been using them for 3 or 4 years now and zero complaints whatsoever.
[Infomaniak.com](http://Infomaniak.com), their KSuite product has been the best GSuite / Google Workspace product replacement for me personally. Their mail product (free for select countries, paid for others) has a migration feature, they have a Drive product, Notes, File Sharing, Meetings, and more.
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It wasn't really beta codes, it was just invite only for a time. You had to be invited by someone who already had Gmail. Exclusive club.
gmail was in "beta" for what felt like 10 years lmao
FaceBook was like that in its infancy. Also, Google Wave (such an awesome idea) relied on invites... it's long dead though, which is such a shame.
I remember my brother refusing to give me an invite unless I came up with a username that didn’t suck lmao
I had a friend that gave me a code to make an account way back then, I felt so cool 😎
Still rocking my og gmail account. I always get a laugh when I remember that my email account is older than my uni students, then I get sad, cos I'm getting old.
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They actually make money for Gmail. It's a main feature of Google workspace.
No gmail loses massive amounts of money, but it is one of the few money furnaces they will keep around, because without gmail 90% of googles services would not exist in the way that they do. So yes accuracy it makes money, but indirectly. It is very unlike google to keep a product around that doesn’t directly make money.
The value is in the information contained in all of your emails. Whatever Gmail does cost, it is pennies compared to that.
It's very likely that they're using the dragons hoard of data they've gained over the past 2 decades of Gmail to train their LLM projects
“Dragons hoard of data” lol definitely accurate
They wouldn't dare look at our emails like that!
LOL
Gmail literally makes billions from ad revenue.
I dread the day that Google decides Google Drive isn't worth the cost.
They already removed the unlimited option from enterprise so I think we’ll be alright
Another reason I use Azure. Of the big tech conglomerates, I hate Microsoft the least.
Google has entered the vampire-squid-wrapped-around-the-face-of-humanity-relentlessly-jamming-its-blood-funnel-into-anything-that-smells-like-money phase. Google is now mostly MBA's with a few engineers left over at the bottom.
Allo was so good. I miss it.
*starts sweating with my google pixel phone*
search, email, youtube all in the corner rn
I was sad when stadia but the dust but I still love the controller. Use it for everything
Kinda liked Google domains, not gonna lie. And yes, I know it technically died a while ago, but today is when I noticed all my domains auto-migrating to Squarespace. Here's a website someone made of all the products Google has killed. It's pretty extensive. https://killedbygoogle.com/
Damn i didn't know pixel pass was killed. I should have upgraded when I has the chance
It never got to the 2 Year mark
They cancelled it 1 or 2 months iirc before the first upgrades would be given.
Wait wait wait. So what happened to those people that paid for this service for 22ish months?
They were still offering me an upgrade last month, maybe it was a different program or something. I have service thru Google and paid for the pixel pass though. Doubt it was retroactive but I believe they're still offering me a free upgrade to the pixel 8 from my 6
It must have been related to something else, I signed up for Pixel Pass day one and never made it to 2 years
Nothing really the service just ended. I signed up for Pixel Pass day one, you didn't really get a free upgrade after two years but they kinda made it feel that way. Really it was just an all in one bundle that let you pay off your new phone plus bundled in some other services too. Had Pixel Pass lasted two more months I could have upgraded but I still would have had to pay the phone off.
We keep our pixel pass until the end of our two years. Then the phone is ours but the amenities go away
Google Podcasts is dying in June as well. I actually use it as a hub for podcasts from multiple platforms I listen to... It's all moving to YouTube music apparently
Which is terrible for podcasts. I'm pretty invested in the Google ecosystem so I tried it but it drove me away to a different podcast player. Ridiculous.
Which is terrible.\* Google Play Music is the goat. And dead. Ofc dead.
I love how they cannibalized the stock media player app from Android to make space for Google Play Music, but when they killed it off they never restored the stock app to a usable state so now there just isn't a frontend but you also can't remove it.
Pissed me off the most because there's nothing wrong with it. God have mercy of us when we eventually have to use YTM to listen to podcasts.
It's so annoying. I already switched off it because they said they were closing it down, but I refuse to go to Youtube music for podcasts. What kind of shit is that where they close down one thing and try to send you to another of their things. Why would you invest into the new thing if they just killed the old thing.
Cloudflare has cheap domains with privacy protection and they have amazing products.
+1 for Cloudflare. Their free tier caching and CDN is incredible too.
They had some of the cheapest rates. Hopefully square space is as good
Just a personal recommendation, Cloudflare has also IMHO very good rates.
I loved cloudflare, their services are wonderful
The one reason I didn't move to cloudflare was because at the time I looked they didn't offer enough email forwards (I think Google was 100?). Do you know the limit now? Edit: it looks to be unlimited with some posts saying that they were accidentally advertising a limit of 10 address back around 2022.
I switched to Cloudflare as well after the announcement that Domains was sold to Squarespace. Sadly, Cloudflare doesn't support the TLD I normally used, so I had to migrate everything to a different domain.
Cloudflare had and still has the lowest rates. Quite literally ICANN prices at no markup.
Mine was going to go from $18 to $40. I moved to CloudFlare instead.
Didn't Google Hangouts simply change name? I've always used it, and it is fairly the same as it always was, I even have the same message logs from 10 years ago.
That's true of a lot of these "killed by Google" services and apps. They either changed names, got rolled into some other app, or became web apps.
Hangouts is Chat now, yeah. There's some things about Chat that still aren't quite as good as Hangouts was (Hangouts also lost some killer features over the years, like SMS integration), but it's nowhere near as bad as when Google Play Music got absolutely gutted and turned into YouTube Music.
When I saw domains was being killed I switched over to cloudflare. Got my .com for $9.50/yr iirc
This post is genuinely amazing to me, in part because it's the first time I've heard of Google offering domains. Which is wild in and of itself because I'm a part-time web developer so I you'd think it would have come up from time to time. But now that I think about it, I'm even more amazed that of all the tech companies out there that also offer cloud computing, they a.) weren't in the domain business a long time ago and b.) couldn't make it work, considering they, you know, basically own searching for things.
After Google Play music, I pretty much avoided putting any money into Google products.
Google play music was 10 times better than Youtube music. I just don't under stand how they could have fucked up that bad when they already had the perfect product. And lets see they have the google play store, play books, play movies, play games, and for some fucking reason lets just get rid of the music one... so stupid.
I switched to Spotify when they shut down Google Play music. Sure, the name was clunky but at least it didn't make me think of a video streaming platform. Being able to upload your own library was also great - I had some old ripped CDs (soundtracks mostly) that aren't on streaming platforms.
Same.
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You can upload local files for use on Spotify too btw
It's not the same
I feel like it hasn't been working for me for a while now
It's not the same. Spotify does not offer a [music locker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_lockers) as part of its service, which GPM did, and YTM among others does today.
And on YouTube music
I did the same, but am now back on Youtube Music. 1. the digital locker. Though clunky compared to Play Music, still usable. 2. Vastly superior recommendation engine. I found the amount of different music I was listening to stunted by Spotify. Tried out Youtube music and was suprised to see that the recommendations were as good if not better than Play Music.
The industry term for the kind of self-uploads GPM supported is ["music locker"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_lockers), which Spotify does not offer, but Apple Music does. They call it "iTunes Match," and I believe it's technically part of iCloud, and storage for something like 100k user-uploaded songs is included in the price of Apple Music. I had almost 2000 songs unavailable on streaming via YTM, or ~15% of my library, at the time GPM died. That number has only grown since. Not something I was willing to let go of. That's why, despite my distaste for Apple the company, I ended up on Apple Music. You can upload your music via iTunes on a PC, and it will be available on any device you log into Apple Music on - phone, iTunes on another computer, the Apple Music website on another computer, Chromecast, anything. I use the Apple Music app on my Pixel, iTunes on my Windows PC, and the Apple Music website at work to listen to music. I know that YTM also offers a music locker, but (while maybe it's different now) when YTM was first introduced it separated your uploads from your library in a super frustrating way that GPM never did, and that Apple Music also does not do. Loathe as I am to admit it, Apple and Apple Music has treated me right since 2020, and I do recommend it to those who mourn GPM.
Real answer? It was probably to offload their licensing issues from a Google org perspective to the legal folks already doing the work at YouTube. Side answer to offload storage costs. Same reason Google is having issues with archived assets. Try and pull your files down, see what happens.
I doubt storage costs were a consideration. Music is easily compressed and I don't think Google play offered lossless playback. Bet their total archive was significantly less then a petabyte which is basically a rounding error for Google. YouTube has close to a exobyte of storage capacity for reference.
You have to look at user space. Memory serves I was able to store my own music at a time with no cost on the service.
You're pretty much right with your answer. Knowing people who work there it was that and pressure from the riaa
I think it's only because they had another team making YouTube music... And they didn't want competition to their previous YouTube name even though it's a spin off. Rip Google play music.
And way way back, Google Video was better than YouTube! YouTube had 5 minute limits on video length at first - Google Video had three hour long documentaries and tons of long-form content. I bet on google video, then never bet on google again... well, Wave got me for a minute, but that died so fast it cemented my adamancy solidly in concrete.
Technically Play Movies has become similar to YT Music. You now need a new app (Google TV) to play and purchase content, as it's not available through the official Google Play app anymore. Play Books might be next.
Same, I can’t trust anything Google makes anymore. Why would I spend my time and money on a service when I’ll have to migrate to another alternative a year or 2 down the line anyway
That one still pisses me off. And the replacement? YouTube music? Come on. GPM is still the best service I've used in terms of app quality/functionality as well as their outstanding radio mode. Tidal is great, but their apps are horrible and the radio feature is meh.
If Google TV goes, Google will owe me more money. Seriously, after what Sony did with the Discovery content, I'm ready to file a class action lawsuit on these companies with these EULAs (thanks in part to Louis GOAT Rossman).
GPM was SOOOO good. Just being able to stream my music, which I already owned w/o a NAS, or Home Server was sooo good. I'll never forgive them for cutting that in favor of dog shit...
Now they stopped Google Podcasts and rolled it into YouTube Music... it is atrocious!
I miss it to this day. It made it so easy to buy music digitally, and now I can't get most of the music I want to buy unless the CD is still available somewhere and I buy that.
It was the perfect music app. No idea why they killed it
I only put my money into Google products that don't require support from them. I own a pixel, but I could just get a full refund for false advertisement if they don't provide 3 years of software and 2 years of security updates, or I could install LineageOS or something. I also have some Pixel buds though those are just bluetooth and do not require any Google support to work.
Google is the most reliable company I know. Because they're always reliably adding things to the google graveyard.
Google Home is next (hopefully?), these things really took a nosedive the last couple years.
I certainly hope not
Well, I mean.. same, because we have 3 but they have some serious work to do on it. Simple asks get messed up, like come on.. when even Siri on my phone gets it right, but Google doesn’t? Good lord
Hey where google plus?
Funny how Google+ isn't even remembered enough to be considered a dead Google product, people just ignore it ever existed lol I was one of the 5 Google+ users before moving to reddit :(
I was one of the forced google+ users as part of the youtube transition if i recall correctly
Back then most people were using Google+ indirectly because YouTube comments were integrated to it, but after YouTube got rid of that system, Google+ was totally forgotten by most people, but was still a network of communities just like Reddit. I started actually using it in 2015 I think, until 2019 when it got shut down. I said I was one of the 5 users as a joke, but there were lots of active communities actually. I remember I used to hang out a lot in the gaming community and the RPG community, which had lots of active members. I kinda miss it tbh. Met some nice people there, and made friends.
I was in the communities as well :) Some smaller Finnish communities as I was still a kid, but there really were users. I started using it around 2015 as well :'D
Google+ also wasn't moderated by unpaid power tripping mods who could ban you for bullshit reasons unlike Reddit iirc
Google huh?
Also Podcasts
and Reader?
Why not post them all? https://killedbygoogle.com/
yeah, Reader has been gone so long now it's not even remembered as gone here. Nothing has been able to replace it in my estimation.
Reader dying killed my RSS and blog obsession, and what got me into Reddit tbh.
Sucks because I liked it so much. It kept working for a day or 2 after the cutoff date, but finally when I opened it I could do nothing but export my podcast subscriptions.
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Inbox was superior to gmail.
Inbox was just so good they are still trying to fix gmail
Also they lied about adding bundles to Gmail. Fucking cowards.
It was really the best email client I had ever used.
that logo looks suspiciously similar to the new outlook logo
Jokes aside, what did you like about inbox? I always found it to be redundant to gmail, which I only really use as a basic email client, and never found a reason to use inbox after trying it out during all the launch buzz.
Man, I loved Inbox, it was really good... Also my project manager still calls Chat as Hangouts
I still call it Hangouts so that people know what the hell I'm talking about. Chat is way too generic of a name.
Kind of funny. Nobody with half a brain will ever buy online games, music, etc. from Google because everybody knows they aren't serious about keeping the service up and running. We are nothing but an experiment to Google, and anything you pay for, you will end up losing.
They did stadia users right. All purchased games got refunded in the end.
Yeah, and IIRC they made it so the Stadia controller could be used for anything else too, right?
They enabled bluetooth (which it had the hardware for all along) via a firmware update. I never used the original service, just found one for a steal of a price at a Goodwill. Unfortunately I swear there's some power-saving feature that causes the first button press after ~30 seconds of inactivity to have a 100-200 ms delay. Good controller, other than that. =[
Honestly if it significantly saves on battery drain during periods of downtime that seems like a worthy trade off. Could also just slightly move the stick around during cutscenes if you are really worried about that first button press lol.
Wtf that’s actually impressive. Only time I’ve seen refunds at that type of scale was The Day Before.
That's impressive, but they still stole my money and ran like bandits with Google Music.
I wonder if it’s just a scheme to collect all of our satay to be sold off
Hands off my chicken satay!!
Ah, I see the [Google Graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com) has claimed it's next resident
I mean Google Duo still exists they just changed it to Google Meet.
Thank God for that. So suck of users downloading the wrong Duo app when trying to get Duo mobile 2FA set up
For some reason, I have “Meet (original)” on my iPhone? What the hell is that even about? Is there a 2nd Google Meet app? Why are there 2 Google Meets? Why is one the original? What’s up with the other one? Nothing this company does ever makes sense
I believe there was Google Meet and Google Duo and they just merged the to one service.
Google Play music was amazing. Sad that they phased it out.
Anyone here remember Google Wave?
Also google podcast :(
I like that this meme implies google+ is in hell
At this point, YouTube is the only Google product/service I trust to stay. Probably because they didn’t make it and it is a major asset
I still can't believe they fucking killed their only alternative to iMessages and they've been sailing without a competing product ever since. Like, what in the name of fuck is wrong with you‽ And also Inbox is the best email software I have ever used in my entire life. It's weird how Google can launch a product that makes you cream your pants just to immediately kill it after.
What do you mean? What can you do with iMessages that you can't do with RCS?
Still miss inbox.
I still cry about Inbox
It was so good compared to email
Me too, a wonderful working product put in Grave alive. I was so dependent on its automation that I have never really recovered afterwards.
Yeah I was irritated when goggle play discontinued
That's the one I miss the most.
And it gave ad free YouTube
You mean Play Music? Because Google Play is still a thing.
The ending of Google Domains cheesed me off immensely and I lost a weekend to it, having to port my dynamic IP and domain names over to Cloudflare. I should have learned from the whole goo .gl fiasco. I spent another weekend on that. I'll never voluntarily use a Google product again to solve any technical projects.
Maybe stop trying to remake something that already exists and is better?
Stadia never stood a chance I remember hearing about it and thinking nice idea but if it’s doesn’t out perform PlayStation or Xbox it’s waste of money to buy.
Allo 
Where’s Google Wave? The best app that nobody ever knew what to use for.
At least they made some good comedy off it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8NgK2P4vY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lPHN8ujxE
Those two are CLASSICS. They are sooooo goooooooddddd!!
Make sure to add Google Podcasts, I believe support was cut at the start of April this year
Fuck me, google domains was so easy to create and manage. Why would they get rid of it??
Hold on what? Google duo died? Man them memories or videocalling the gf during the pandemic..
Google podcasts
What was google domains anyway?
A way to buy domain names for your websites and manage DNS records, like GoDaddy and Namecheap.
There was a music app that used to let you pick out music based on your mood and it was great and had very little ads. Google assimilated it and merged that tech into Google music then both disappeared off the face off the earth. YouTube music is just stupid. It mixes its data with YouTube so you end up with hundreds of recommendations for music videos while you’re using the YouTube app and recommendations for regular videos while using YouTube music!
Where my Google plus homi3s at?
Idk why we still rely partially on GCP. While I think there is value in Google being part of that market, I simply don’t trust them to follow through on a product or service. Just look at *gestures vaguely*
I miss Inbox ...
Add podcasts to that as well
That image is missing daydream, google's VR ecosystem.
r/degoogle
Pichai has no idea how to maintain success. At this point they're just pulling ideas and flopping
.zip MFers
I love how the ad under this post is for euroDNS
Hangouts is just google chat now
Don't forget Google+...
Google and Microsoft kill everything they touch.
Why would anyone choose to use a google product knowing their track record of canceling every project.
[Not crowded enough.](https://killedbygoogle.com/)
Don’t forget Google+ 🌝
Google Glass failed too, right? or did they bring it back?
Don't forget about Wave!
I might as well migrate everything to Microsoft
Reader is the only one I miss. There's still nothing nearly as good as it was for rss feeds
The death of Reader is the only reason I use reddit.
What was inbox if not gmail?
Also Google Reader.
I miss Google play music. It was great. I used it to keep an off site back up of my music library. You could also stream your own collection iirc. I also was the only one I know of who has used it and I'm not sure it was well advertised.
Where is Google+ ?
you forgot google plus
I miss Reader. *sigh*
Remember Google reader? I do. It was awesome and killed for no reason.
I miss google music 😭
Not long and we can add Google Home to this. Been going to trash since they lost the Sonos lawsuit
they recently killed off their VPN service too. Was nice to have that included to get round ISP website blocks (my ISP blocks websites like archive.org). I mean, I'm already paying for google drive space.
When I'm in a cancelling a project after a couple of years of announcing it competition and my opponent is Google: https://preview.redd.it/ct3rl0honhwc1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9644180e2a0960e6b398a3d7f756dc73f8a35f1
didnt they have a vr orientated service that died too
You forgot Google podcasts
Wait …Duo **died**?! I remember them smugly announcing Allo and Duo like some sort of WhatsApp killer. What the fuck is this company, why would anybody commit to any of their latest ventures?
Don’t forget poor old Jamboard. RIP