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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by bxparks »

nja wrote: post #63
bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

Chromecast Audio still works! They just don't sell them anymore. I use mine every day, and have been keeping an eye out for anyone selling theirs...

Hmm, good to know. But given Google's history, I assumed that it would stop working.

I also need to sell my Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Brand new, still in its shrink wrap. Bought it last year, to replace a flaky Roku. It was a flaky HDMI cable instead. I trust Roku more than Google for hardware support.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by bxparks »

bigthymer wrote: post #80
bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

I'm still upset that Google Maps no longer tracks my location. It was very useful to be able to go back and see how often and where I had gone. Is there another app where I can store this locally?

Strava? :-) Half-joking, half-serious, I haven't used Strava in years, I don't remember all its capabilities.

Edit: Missed the "locally" part. Sorry no suggestions. Maybe Garmin has something?

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by socalgal2 »

BirAdam wrote: post #68

Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It…

I was blown away by the demo but then after I thought about it, it seemed like a nightmare to me. All the problems of slack of having to manually check channels for updates except X 100 (yea, I get that slack wasn't available then. My point is I saw that it seemed impossible to keep up with nested constantly updated hierarchical threads. Keeping up with channels on slack is bad enough so imagine if Wave had succeeded. It'd be even worse.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by dheera »

bxparks wrote: post #37

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos. Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now. Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google. Go…

Isn't it "Google TV Streamer" now?

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by bdangubic »

nickthegreek wrote: post #36
fennecbutt wrote: post #7

Google Glass. Thanks society. People always fail to see something that is an inevitability. Humans lack foresight because they don't like change.

Wild that people would downvote your low stake personal opinion given as a direct ask from OP. I am 100% with you.

yea, crazy, I upvoted just now.

google glass sucks though and glasses will never be a thing. google and meta and … can spend $8T and come up with the most insane tech etc but no one will be wearing f’ing glasses :)

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by bxparks »

bdangubic wrote: post #78
daxfohl wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Search: Not officially dead yet, but....

yup, losing 0.000087% year-over-year so in 865 billion years it’ll be dead :)

That was probably me, when I stopped using Google Search some years ago. :-) Got tired of the ads, the blog spam, and AI-generated content crap floating to the top of their results page.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by dheera »

pzo wrote: post #32

Humane AI Pin. I think they launched 2 years too early and were too greedy with device pricing and subscription. Also if they focused as accessory for Android/iPhone they could reduce power usage and cost as well. Their execution was of course bad but I think today current LLM models are better and faster and there is much more OSS models to reduce costs. Hardware though looked nice and pico projector interesting con…

Hard disagree. The Humane AI Pin ad was a classic silicon valley ad that screamed B2VC and demonstrated nothing actually useful that couldn't be done with an all-in-one phone app (or even the ChatGPT app) and bluetooth earbuds that you already have.

Which reduces its innovation level to nothing more than a chest-mounted camera.

You want real B2C products that people would actually buy? Look at the Superbowl ads instead. Then watch the Humane ad again. It's laughable.

Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by shikon7 »

nickthegreek wrote: post #36
fennecbutt wrote: post #7

Google Glass. Thanks society. People always fail to see something that is an inevitability. Humans lack foresight because they don't like change.

Wild that people would downvote your low stake personal opinion given as a direct ask from OP. I am 100% with you.

Google Glass was so much before its time, it might be reinvented a few more times and abandoned again before finally becoming a success.
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