[makecheck]

Apple has had iTunes, and for a time a music “social network” Ping. The original messaging tool was called iChat before it was iMessage. Apple has also had multiple Internet services that were more or less the same (iTools, .Mac, iCloud). Even Contacts used to be called Address Book, and Wallet used to be called Passbook.

Google still does worse but renaming things is pretty common.

[graeme]

That’s not quite right. Messages on iPhone was always messages. Mac’s version was called ichat and was separate. Apple then cancelled it and merged it into messages. Messages itself never had a name change and was always larger than ichat.

Likewise, the itunes music store still exists! It is a place where you can buy and download music. It’s not the same service as Apple Music, which is a streaming music service.

[filoleg]

>Likewise, the itunes music store still exists! It is a place where you can buy and download music. It’s not the same service as Apple Music, which is a streaming music service.

That's actually an interesting point that I've never considered before, even though I was aware of it.

iTunes has always been kept separate from Apple Music, with no evident plans to merge those in sight, while Google Play Music was used for both streaming and purchasing music. I don't think it ultimately affected the demise of GPM, but it is still an interesting topic to ponder.

[jkaplowitz]

iTunes, other than the iTunes Store, is indeed gone now and merged into Apple Music:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210200

But as that article briefly mentions, the iTunes Store continues to exist and can be reached from the Apple Music app. I suspect this will change in a future macOS release, though I don't work for Apple and have no inside info.

[philistine]

What Apple did in your examples was definitely rename. What Google does in the examples mentioned above is definitely shuttering.

[jrnichols]

> Google still does worse but renaming things is pretty common.

Feels like Google has renamed a few things to be too close to Apple's.

Google Wallet became Google Pay. Picasa became Google Photos. also they have Google Drive. Google Messages...

[ehsankia]

Picasa is quite different from Photos, and Wallet wasn't quite the same as Pay. Android Pay and Google Wallet merged together to become Google Pay.

[wetpaws]

Apple being bad does not automatically make Google good