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Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by onion2k »

Just1689 wrote: post #15

What 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.

I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product..

Feedly picked up 3 million new users in the two weeks following Google shutting down Reader. Based on that alone I would never trust Google not to shut down a product that seems popular and well-used.

Literally the only thing that would change my perception of Google's short-termism would be if they don't shut down any products in the next 10 years.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by baskire »

throwaways885 wrote: post #31
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The Google incubator" is particularly accurate here, if you look at the tags on the blog: "Area 120". This is an app developed by one of their "let these people write random stuff" groups: https://area120.google.com/ To my knowledge, nothing majorly successful or long-term supported has ever come out of Area 120.

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.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by tyingq »

burtonator wrote: post #35

PRESS 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…

Yeah, they killed App Maker: "The App Maker editor and user apps will be shut down on January 19, 2021. New application creation is disabled.".

And it's somewhat in the same space as Tables.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by ScoutOrgo »

Tangentially related, but google nixed android chrome's "home"/"duet" feature which allowed having the url bar at the bottom of the screen and made navigating on a phone/tablet _much_ easier. I'm somewhat baffled how they can work on a tablet and be so unaware of what a good UI looks like.

Re: Tables: Tracking work for teams

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Post by virgilp »

What 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, because it auto-scrolls to the next image & there's no way to stop this behavior.
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