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by sdegutis 3402 days ago
Also Maps.
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Map is not stable. Especially as you use it to navigate. I just almost park my car on the highway beside the Hiton hotel I want to check in!
and YouTube.
Mockery aside, the rule "don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant" is a good one.
Well, Reader was the dominant RSS reader...
Then maybe it should be: "Don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant and necessities." Maps, email, search, are all needed in modern life. RSS readers lost out to Twitter & Facebook years ago.
And adsense. Well, I guess the adsense goes without saying.

But what else has Gooogle ever done for us?

And droid.
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
and Chrome
and Photos
What has google ever done for us?