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Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
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Re: Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
#122I have never heard of spaces before. But it's a decent concept. Had I known about this earlier I would have given it a try. I am guesssing this does not belong in a separate app by itself for google. It does not have the kind of high volume addictive app idea that google cares about. This is only used when you plan something and after that you don't ever touch it until the next time. So I see why they are killing it,…
I had never heard of it either, and would have given it a try. Sounds like a decent idea.
Re: Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
That post is about Google cloud, where you're a paying customer and you're not shown ads.
Just curious, but could Google's culture have evolved so that it tends to treat all their users as products by default, even if they're actually not in a particular case? "You are the product, not a customer" applies to most of what they do, and that has to have had an effect.
I'm an ex-googler. It's not that way. Googlers are themselves heavy users of the products.
Ads are treated like any other machine learning problem. The belief is that ads should be (essentially) predicted search results.
Re: Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
#124lol
This account has been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments. Please don't do this here.
Re: Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wouldn't surprise me if the savings are well worth the bad press. If not, how could a business be so fragile and reach the size of Google?
Because they have a monopoly on search?
What I'm saying that since they have a monopoly on search, they don't need to worry about this specific kind of weak sauce negative press.
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#126I'm at the point that I don't even try new Google products because I don't trust that they will stay around. I got burned too many times: Wave, Knol, Google Health, Buzz, Notebook, Answers, and most importantly Google Reader. There is just no way I'm investing time in any new Google product. They are untrustworthy. For instance, why on earth would I want to use Allo when still Hangouts exists? We know one or both wil…
I still hold a massive grudge about Google Reader. That single retreat caused me to reduce my Google services usage, a habit that I continue to this day.
Maybe once a year, I check Google Takeout services to see what I've used, then go on a deleting spree. I hope at some point outlook.com matures to a point where I can abandon Gmail.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mockery aside, the rule "don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant" is a good one.
Well, Reader was the dominant RSS reader...
Then maybe it should be: "Don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant and necessities." Maps, email, search, are all needed in modern life. RSS readers lost out to Twitter & Facebook years ago.