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Tables: Tracking work for teams
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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#92You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#93You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.
Table of Contents navigator was recently added, I think "Document Compare" is fairly new.
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#94This product appears to have an identity crisis.
Is it like Google Spreadsheets, Google Forms? Trello? All three with some AI sprinkled on top?
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#95What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details…
It seems to be UI/UX for creating//editing//managing databases and interacting with them for non-programmers.
Paraphrasing the video: Like sheets, but with structured data (columns define data types with relationships) and complex actions/triggers via bots.
Per your original comment, given Google's track record with customer performance//services being dead on arrival, I can imagine few here are interested in learning//migrating their workflow just to be locked out or migrating away not long after.
I'd link to the myriad of hn//twitter//medium posts used to get customer support through bad press, but I'm on mobile, I'll leave that as an exercise to the user.
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#96PRESS RELEASE Sept 22, 2021. Google Announces that Google Tables will be sunset and all users will have to migrate away by Sept 23, 2021. "Google Tables was a great experiment but we're migrating to Google Tracker - a better version of Google Tables designed for power users." said Dep Re. Kated, VP of Engineering at Google. Google Tables has no migration tool or system for users to export their data angering some use…
Seriously, we're an enterprise G-suite customer and Google really does move too fast for us. It pisses off our executives when things change/get removed. We'll be migrating to O365, despite all its flaws and uptime problems.
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#97What a useful app. Reminds me of Airtable in some ways. I enjoy a good flexible table app any day. We're all tired of the obligatory "I wonder how long before Google deprecates this...;)" but I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product... 1M monthly users? 3M? ...xM? or that when a project actually reaches that point.
[Disclosure I work at Google Area 120 and would be partly responsible for this type of decision] This is a really helpful comment and I like the nod to transparency. Thank you! Not sure we could get quite so concrete publicly (there are lots of unknowns and wouldn't want to make commitments we can't keep), but aligning goals between the business, team, and users/customers is a great idea and something we can improve…
Are all these comments about the near and inevitable death of your new product at all soul-crushing?
I'm a stranger on the internet and even I can feel the burn.
Good luck.
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#98So, is this integrating with GSuite? Also will it have integrations with Salesforce and Slack/Teams? Otherwise, it's probably DOA for most orgs.
There isn't a single work tracking/time tracking/task management system on the planet that isn't terrible in some way or form. I still don't get why no one has figured it out.
Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#99You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.
The otherside of that coin is feature creep. Docs/sheets so their job fine, so aside from minor updates//fixes they don't need to substantially change; given their user based substantial redesigns should be their own product and if they prove to be substantially better then they can migrate away from the old docs/sheets
Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams
#100PRESS RELEASE Sept 22, 2021. Google Announces that Google Tables will be sunset and all users will have to migrate away by Sept 23, 2021. "Google Tables was a great experiment but we're migrating to Google Tracker - a better version of Google Tables designed for power users." said Dep Re. Kated, VP of Engineering at Google. Google Tables has no migration tool or system for users to export their data angering some use…
THIS! , considering the news that they are sunsetting chrome payment api(ish), anyways.. Google used to invent a lot of cool products during their 80/20 rule i guess, and blockbuster hits like gmail, gchat and a lot came out, but only a very few left :(