David Pierce at The Verge writing about Google Podcasts going away and Google’s pattern of abandoning their own apps:
It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists…
Jacoby I saw this and pessimistically thought, "Why would anyone have faith in Google at this point?"
Mingo 🦩 Hagen @manton which is why I never put any time into their apps (apart from gmail, so far so good).
Greg Moore Love when one of the world's largest companies gives a lame excuse like they are "simply responding to the market". The poor mega-corporation; their hands are tied and they have no resources to make their own software successful. 🙄
Jacob White :verified: @manton at this point they’re canceling stuff I’ve never heard of.
Art Kavanagh @MitchW I always found Google+ frustrating: that horribly regular grid, the ugly font, the absence of proper links and the forced use of a URL shortener. But I used it. Now, the thing I find frustrating is that I can’t use it any more.
Rob Jackson @mingo I wouldn’t trust gmail either. You will outlive it. You want things that will outlive you
