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by hobs 1885 days ago
Just got kicked off of google music as a paying customer, so nope, got a shitty youtube music replacement.

As a paying google fi customer got transferred to hangouts then that got canceled and I apparently need to change my phone number if I want to make an outgoing voip call again because ??? google.
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david_allison 1885 days ago
> Just got kicked off of google music as a paying customer, so nope, got a shitty youtube music replacement.

YouTube Music isn't available in my area. Got kicked off Google Play Music with a "download your content, we're deleting it" and couldn't pay even if I wanted to.

Announced discontinuation in August, full deletion of my Music Library in February.

> On 24 February 2021, we will delete all of your Google Play Music data. This includes your music library, with any uploads, purchases and anything you've added from Google Play Music. After this date, there will be no way to recover it.

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tomjen3 1885 days ago
Same here. I ended up on Spotify instead, which is still shitty although less than I remember (no music player should ever display the notice "can't play the current song", that is its core feature).

However I don't think the two can be compared: we don't need to launch a giant project to make serious infrastructure changes to switch provider.

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hobs 1884 days ago
Just responding to the OP "Yes, Google has cancelled services, but they've all been free things that they had every right to decide would never increase revenue. Why should Google have to keep everything they ever built running for ever?"

Which to be clear they are not responsible for running all their services forever, but it puts a lie to the idea that google is fine with stability in a service, they'll take something commercially successful enough and sacrifice it for something else in hope it attains "hypergrowth".

At the end of the day google doesnt give a flip about its customers, the structure of google will always incentive new services over fixing/maintaining existing stuff and anyone who has a pollyannish view of this needs to wake up.

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