Is it deprecated yet?
Tables: Tracking work for teams
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#132I tried to give it a shot. Tables is, for reasons I cannot understand, geo-locked.
> Tables is not yet available > The Tables beta is currently available in the U.S.
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#133What 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…
Why should I invest any time in a product which will diappear? Any time I spent looking into it, beyond just looking for ideas for my own products, seems like a waste of my time which I'll never get back.
Ha -- that's the exact same thought I had. It's also coupled with the fear that if I _do_ like the product I'll just be even more disappointed.
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#135You 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.
I call it Promo-Driven Development. You have to launch things to get promoted at Google, but you're not going to get demoted for transferring to a better project afterward.
Just like that one engineer on your team that says yes to everything the manager does while writing the worst spaghetti code because he knows once he gets promoted/leaves for greener pastures, someone else will take care of the mess and he will be long gone by then.
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#136Does anyone feels looking at Google's products lately that there's something tremendously wrong with the organization. I'm not talking about just dropping features but just quality of implementation and missing things that people should get fed up and do something during development. Like hangout > chat, let's drop the existing feature of read receipt that is even more important in the remote/work world in a product…
Google Maps use to be a hell of a tool for exploration, navigation and travel. We used it on a tablet as we drove across Scotland in 2013 and it was fantastic. It provided tons of data about your routes and allowed you to easily manage your trip.
Since then they've gradually removed useful features, cluttered the UI with crap, and dumbed everything down to the point where it's almost useless. At one point they even removed the map scale, I think you have to enable an option buried in a menu to bring it back.
It's gotten so incredibly slow and clumsy to use that it's not even worth it half the time.
Google Photos is rapidly heading in that direction. They seem to be distancing you more and more from your photos and trying to throw their services in your face.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of it is just the HN echo chamber. Folks commenting that GCP my be shut down because it doesn't make as much money as Azure, totally oblivious to the fact that Google has billions invested in physical buildings and hardware being hammered on and built out around the world as we speak, just shows that folks here are out of the loop on this type of thing.
From what I can tell, there isn't a single person in this thread claiming GCP may be shut down. And if there is, it certainly isn't a meaningful number of people. What you're doing is claiming people hold an easily attackable position that they don't hold, and attacking that position. It's called strawmanning.
Not in this thread, but it has happened a couple of times in the past any time Google products / GCP have been brought up, and that I've replied to saying that it is nonsense.
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#138The following is a sarcastic joke. Probably prescient. --------------- NOTICE Tables will be sunset starting 1 november 2022. From that date and onwards Tables is read i ly and you may export your data. January 31 2023 Tables will be shutdown and your data abd instances will be unavailable from here on.
Is it a joke or a real insider info?
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Area 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.
Name one project that’s lived long term that came out of a120? By lived I do mean no changes to end user for the absorption into another team.
Perhaps not a perfect example but Reply by Google seemingly got integrated into Android itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_(Google)
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like Notion to me. https://notion.so
It cool to create a "Area 120" space for new ideas. But what's the point of funding underfunded clones of old ideas instead of aquiring them? What is the most successful or longest lived Area 120 product?