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Yeah, but maybe Blogger is next in line!
The only thing keeping Blogger alive is probably that Google uses it for their own blogs.
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Moving on from Picasa
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Re: Moving on from Picasa
#62Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…
"Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear"
The worst part is when they do this with acquisitions (which Picasa was, though admittedly it was acquired quite a long time ago).
Also, even when they don't outright kill apps/services, it is painful when they basically let them wither on the vine (see: Google Voice, another acquisition of a promising product that Google snapped up and then basically put into hibernation soon after).
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#63You can't view or create "specific content", such as tags, captions or comments in Google Photos. If you find them important for your photo organization, all your work to date will be lost.
Hope they will allow 3rd party apps to upload to Google Photos.
Hope they will someday publish an uploader for Linux desktops. Even Google Music has one.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#64Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…
Your comment about the blog prompted me to go check the Google Voice blog...nothing since May 2013. Crap. I've been using, loving, and recommending GV since I started using it in 2010 when I got my first smartphone...one day they're just gonna up and shut down GV and not only will I lose a service I'm extremely fond of but I also won't get, you know, phone calls, because that's the number I've handed out for the last…
Say we get the announcement that GV is going away tomorrow... anyone know of a decent alternative?
Re: Moving on from Picasa
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Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp.
That's kind of Google's modus operandi though, isn't it? They don't make desktop apps unless there is a distinct need for it (Google Earth, for example). They are all about the web!
Furthermore, Google Earth only existed on the desktop because Google bought Keyhole who made the app. Google would not have made it if it couldn't be on the web.
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Your comment about the blog prompted me to go check the Google Voice blog...nothing since May 2013. Crap. I've been using, loving, and recommending GV since I started using it in 2010 when I got my first smartphone...one day they're just gonna up and shut down GV and not only will I lose a service I'm extremely fond of but I also won't get, you know, phone calls, because that's the number I've handed out for the last…
I ported my number out of Google Voice a couple of years ago. Some things to keep in mind with GV: * Your only form of "support", even when paying to port out a number, is a forum staffed entirely with volunteers. If you're actually using GV it's useful to read through here to see the trainwreck: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/voice * As the parent mentioned, the GV Blog is barren. * You're better off…
Which consumer Google product has a kind of support different than a volunteer forum?
Try to get help for Google Music, or Google+, or an Android software.
They should at least sponsor and monitor some tags in the stack exchange forums like Microsoft does.
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I'm still upset about Google Reader...
There's at least two of us then. Reader is what made me swear never to rely on a Google service for anything ever again.
There was a moment of beautiful karma a couple years ago when I was at a museum conference where the Google Cultural Institute (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/) team was trying to sign up partners but people kept asking how they could trust that it wouldn't turn into the next Reader and how they could get their data out or have permanent redirects when (not if) Google decided to shut the service down.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
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Picasa web albums has hardly disappeared. It was replaced by Google Photos (then Google+ photos) a couple years ago. They left the old interface around for years to allow people to transition over at their own pace, you can't really expect a better migration path than that.
Google photos doesn't have a desktop app. Being able to sort pics on a desktop is just as important, if not moreso, as being able to sort pics on the web. Not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp.
>not everything needs to be, nor should be, a pure webapp
google thinks you're wrong. me too.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#69Alternatives for desktop picasa? Desktop Picasa is also going away and it is what I use for organizing my photos. I understand the backend of Picasa Web is replaced by Google Photos, no problem. My problem is with the desktop organization. Desktop Picasa allows for one feature no other alternative I have seen allows ... tagging of multiple photos. Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on…
Really hoping they'll open source the Picasa application or something, it was really the best in the business - I still recommend it to people regularly. Managing digital photos any other way I've seen is just too complicated for average users.
Other than that I can only recommend they go to Lightroom or one of several open source applications which are at varying stages of completion and usability (I haven't played with any recently so if anyone knows a particularly polished one that runs on Windows let me know). All of the alternatives are more difficult to use than Picasa. This really sucks.
Re: Moving on from Picasa
#70Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official B…
Why they didnt evolve google talk into a skype clone is beyond me. I have 20 ideas at least of cool features, but as we only have skype this type of product will stagnate.
Hangouts is kind of a Skype clone.