> The reality is that, when a lot of people claim Google kills all its products, what they really mean is something like: "Google canceled Google Reader, and I still don't forgive them."
This and the rest is a fair comment. Thank you for linking it. I'll personally be getting off the Google kills everything bandwagon (I'll stay on the Google is creepy as fuck bandwagon but that's unrelated)
A couple of their examples at least seem a bit off - apparently Youtube Music isn't as good as the previous one, and Wave, while incorporated a bit into their office products, lacks the central feature that made Wave Wave.
Yes but a couple being off doesn't make the rest of the comment less accurate. The change that has happened is no longer "Google kills everything" but more "Google merges products into each other half arsedly"
Maybe that's worse for you? Not for me to decide. I'm not using Google services as best I can either way because they're an advertising company, but I will stop my personal contribution prattling off the Google closes everything comments.
I speak only for myself, a pet peeve on this site is people thinking every comment is a proclamation from the almighty. I'm just a fat bastard sitting on a toilet reading HN, I'm not telling you what to do
For me it is a matter of investing time and interest into products. I still remember discovering Google Spaces and thinking that it was something I could actually use to plan activities and stuff, only for it to be cancelled in a couple of weeks.
Some features made it, but what I've heard from the people that used it was the complete redesign toward tasks instead of emails was what made it valuable, which hasn't happened to gmail.
> Google Wave -> Realtime collaboration in Google Docs/Slides/Sheets
The closest equivalent now is actually Slack. Google was too early to the party and didn't realize what could come of it.
Google Wave was going to be revolutionary, not because it was a chat system, but because it was to be an open system, not the walled garden that Slack and other messaging platforms are.
Some of those I agree with, some I don't. For example, Google Listen was definitely killed. I used to use it and there was no migration path to anything else Google. I think Google Music didn't do podcasts then, and regardless it still doesn't if you're outside the US or Canada. So definitely killed.
For Google+, it says "Google Photos, Chat + Meet, Calendar Features, etc.", but these are in almost no way equivalent to a social media style stream with communities and circles and such.
Similar with Latitude, IIRC it was merged into G+ and then killed. The equivalent feature didn't exist at the time (not sure if it does now, my cause to use it then no longer applies.)