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Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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Re: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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Post by amyjess »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #418
amyjess wrote: post #413

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I found the way Feedly handles scrolling to be aggravating to the point where I couldn't use it. The Old Reader is great, but it doesn't have a mobile app. For a while, I ended up having accounts with both The Old Reader and Feedly, so I could use The Old Reader on desktop and GReader (a Feedly client) on mobile.

The Old Reader is compatible with a number of 3rd party clients, including GReader.

Ah thanks. It's been a while since I've used RSS, though... I eventually gave up after a while.

Re: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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Post by Moru »

dageshi wrote: post #355
stcredzero wrote: post #287

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Forget putting AAA games on it, imagine a massively improved version of the flash games that were popular a decade ago. I wouldn't be so confident about AAA games being a barrier. I guess AAA games emphasizing "realism" might always have a high-end PC niche, since the genre could always ramp up graphics to the point of un-streamability. I could also totally imagine, let's say, Nintendo, going whole-hog into streaming…

I guess I was thinking more in terms of what's going to happen when you can literally play a game with the click of a button in a browser like you could in flash. My thought is there will be massive amounts of games flooding the market in much the same ways there are on mobile devices and the price will trend towards zero with microtransactions in the same fashion.

Ever seen Roblox?

Re: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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Post by robben1234 »

As a consumer, and Reader and Inbox user, I'd never buy a Google product (Pixel, Home, Fi, etc) I need to rely on in everyday life or use their cloud for hosting anything important. At this point I see all of their products as mayflies. They may be interesting and useful today, but tomorrow they'll be gone.

And even if they change their internal policies, I'm not sure I could be able to change my opinion on them.

Re: Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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Post by MockObject »

gnur wrote: post #16
blakesterz wrote: post #5

I was never really a fan of Google+, but it's amazing how it went from MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER to being shutdown completely in such a short amount of time. I'm annoyed by all the other things they've ditched, but it scares me to think they did such an about face on Google+. I'll never use anything new from them, and I always tell anyone who asks to avoid using anything there. I'm kinda surprised anyone would run an…

As far as I am aware, Google hasn't shut anything down that you actually pay for. So fear mongering about GCP is just begin irrational.

But they also refuse to consider charging for popular products that users would be happy to pay for, like Reader and Inbox. So there's more in play here than narrow bean-counting.

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Post by Moru »

tyfon wrote: post #243
Guillaume86 wrote: post #136

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Gmail app on Android has ads in the mailbox.

And even more ridiculous, since they now have ads on the gmail app I get ads in my G suite account on android. They also constantly try to "unify" my email accounts so that they mix personal g suite email with my work exchange email and I have to click the top right to switch accounts. I'm quite close to removing the whole damn app too and go for K9-mail or something again (does that still get updated?) Also the web…

I have no idea if K9-mail gets updated but we are talking about mail, what is there to update? It still works for me.

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Post by tluyben2 »

criley2 wrote: post #162
Flockster wrote: post #115

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My experience with Gmail is the complete opposite. It is far better at filtering spam/phishing - mails than all the other free mail services.

When you've had a gmail account for ~15 years, every advertiser, info reseller, marketer, phisher and spammer alive has my email at the top of their list. Is what it is, but with Inbox I had 0 issue controlling all of it, and with gmail, all of this garbage is dropped directly into my HIGHLY IMPORTANT >> INBOX with zero filtering or analysis (even though I have, no kidding, over a hundred manual filters containing TH…

I have had mine for arouns 15 years and I do not recognize this. I really loved Inbox but for this aspect Gmail is not worse; I have not had to worry about spam, false positives or actual spam, at all for the past 8 years at least. I sometimes check my spam and it contains nothing I should have seen. Important contains what I want to see etc. It works perfectly; and I have been getting 1000s of mails per day, mostly spam for more than 10 years on many ancient email addresses that I still need to maintain.

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Post by what_ever »

Jasper_ wrote: post #392
what_ever wrote: post #390

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Are Slack, GMail, Google Play Music websites or web applications? AMP is not applicable to sites/applications that remain open in your tabs all the time. I think it's more applicable to pages you open, consume the information and close the tab in couple of minutes. Disc: Googler but nowhere close to AMP.

Let's say Google Maps then. It will show up in search results, artificially at the top because of close integration, but performs incredibly poorly. I can't take their claims about AMP being about performance seriously when they do not seem to make any attempt at optimizing the stuff that they put on top.

Sorry missed this. I don't consider Google Maps a website as well. Specially not a static website that AMP is targetting. You move around in maps, give it input and it gives you a different output.
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