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by ignostic 4121 days ago
Wow, I've forgotten how many Google products I used that were abandoned at some point. I counted 15 that I've used.

To be fair, some of these didn't die - they were renamed, graduated, or folded into another project. Google Talk actually still works on Google Chat if you have the old client. Google Listen became Google Music, Checkout was mostly folded into Wallet, etc.

Sidenote: if you are the developer, that yellow-on-white is almost completely unreadable. I know flat pastels are in, but I have to either strain or open the box to highlight.

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Google Listen didn't become Google (Play) Music, it was completely abandoned. There is no support for podcasts within the GPM app or website.

Google has actually moved away from supporting podcasts without 3rd party software, whereas Apple introduced a dedicated app with iOS 6.