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Was that just carelessness? Why not only notify users of the feature you are about to deprecate? Do they not have records of which app developers have used the payments API?
The interesting thing here is that a commercial marketplace for browser extensions failed. That seems surprising - surely a marketplace for extensions to the most popular browser on the planet could bring in some revenue?! Is it just that nobody paid for things? Presumably they're going to keep running the chrome web store, so isn't a cut of paymens "free money" to them? Is there some big cost to this I'm not seeing,…
I dunno ... Google shuts things down independent of revenue metrics as far as I can tell. They seem to set a bar somewhere around "is this the next Gmail" and if the answer is no they shut it down regardless of how profitable it may be. They want a few giant businesses, not a hundred small ones. I wish they would look at spinning these things out because many of them would make entirely viable independent entities ev…
The deprecation route Google takes destroy enormous amounts of value.
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I can confirm. We have a normal Google doc (nothing super fancy) that spans about 10 pages at most, and when I scroll past about 8th page in Safari, scrolling becomes almost unusually sluggish and everything starts lagging.
Honestly... I don't know if that's intentional; Drive 'files' get really laggy really quick in Chrome too.
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
This is super annoying. I have two extensions, one which we've offered on Chrome and Firefox for years, and which uses Stripe for payments. The other we only offered on Chrome and was paid through the Chrome Store. Thinking of all the work we'll have to do to manage accounts/payments/etc on the PDF extension almost makes me want to scrap the whole thing. Most frustrating is the migration. We have been live in the Chr…
Are you able to query what they were paying? e.g. google.payments.inapp.getPurchases
This is super annoying. I have two extensions, one which we've offered on Chrome and Firefox for years, and which uses Stripe for payments. The other we only offered on Chrome and was paid through the Chrome Store. Thinking of all the work we'll have to do to manage accounts/payments/etc on the PDF extension almost makes me want to scrap the whole thing. Most frustrating is the migration. We have been live in the Chr…
and annoying. you're charging your most loyal users the cost of providing proof after all these years.
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How does one get the attorney general to write a letter like this?
Depends on the state, but look for verbiage related to lodging a consumer complaint. Here's[1] the one for my state. The AG office isn't necessarily writing a personalized letter, but rather forwarding your complaint and maintaining visibility into the correspondence until it's resolved. In this case, a complaint such as "Google operates a marketplace for web browser extensions. I generate revenue through this market…
Otherwise Google effectively just bin any issues that a customer service team should fix.
My takeaway: Google products & services exist to fill a gap until there's sufficient other options. As options increase, expect Google to "comfortably sunset" their solutions.
go with apple, get App store serfdom. Go with google, you get smoother sailing until one day they cancel the sea. Moral of the story is dont build long term on these platforms. Use them as an onramp and get out. The web is still our most open precious platform. TBL never banned anyone
There's a quote that describes this so well I keep reposting it on occasions like such, ever since Twitter pulled one of their platform betrayals back in 2012/13: "Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we dem…
-- Mark Zuckerberg
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There's a quote that describes this so well I keep reposting it on occasions like such, ever since Twitter pulled one of their platform betrayals back in 2012/13: "Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we dem…
"Rudimentary creatures of blood, and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding." -- Mark Zuckerberg