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by toomuchtodo
740 days ago
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Sherlocked. It was inevitable considering the ease of capturing local user data and enriching it, and a bit naive to think these capabilities wouldn’t get baked into the OS. But if you don’t try, you don’t have a chance to get acquired by an org way bigger and lazier who’d rather write a check than do the work. We’ve just come back to a fancier Google Desktop search. It doesn’t need to be great if you have scale (Teams vs Slack uptake, for example). Rewind has to actively sell, sing for their meal. Everyone buying Windows is still going to buy Windows, Microsoft has plenty of time to iterate and polish. > In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop. The reason given was that "In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued." What is old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop |
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