[rickdeckard]

Depends on whether YT Music is considered a place for products to continue living or a place for products to put to rest.

So far it seems to be where Google Media apps migrate their users to when they decide to retire a media service. ANY kind of media service...

[verdverm]

Yea, that's what consolidation means

[rickdeckard]

Then that's where the confusion is coming from.

Because that's not what consolidation means.

[verdverm]

Google is consolidating their portfolio and allows you to migrate away if that is your choice

[rickdeckard]

See, despite being common corporate speech, this is not what 'consolidation' means. 'Consolidation' means combining multiple things into a stronger whole.

As said, it depends on whether one considers YT Music as a place for the podcasts product to continue living, or a place where customers of the product are suggested to go to "also find podcasts somehow". Considering that Google stops the product and "allows you to migrate away", they don't consolidate, they discontinue.

If I have two horse carriages carrying people to different places and I decide to kill one horse and tell all its passengers to maybe check out the other horse, then I'm not 'consolidating' my horses, I discontinued the life of one of my products.