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by 0xDEF 995 days ago
Why did Google fail to turn "simple" apps like Google Podcasts and Google Reader into low maintenance apps?

Google Podcasts is so simple it could even have been an open source reference app showcasing Flutter and some backend GCP services.

1 comments

Internal promo economy.

Same reason Reader got killed.

Nobody wants to work on that.