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0 pointsnotatoad7y ago0 comments

just out of curiosity, when was the last time google shut down a product that you were actively using?

For me it was Reader, and that was the only time. and yeah, i'm still a little salty about it. But every company shuts things down - google can't keep all their dead and unused failures running forever, and Google+ was obviously deserving of a shutdown.

"i don't trust google because they shut down things nobody uses" isn't really a rational complaint.

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stevekemp7y ago

Reader, Orkut (yeah!), and Wave were the three I can remember off-hand. I suspect there were more.

I know that I had to cope with some changes to their map-pricing recently too - so I moved to an alternative (easy to manage since I was using leaflet.js as a wrapper).

Rightly or wrongly though I now have the impression that their APIs/Services are not likely to remain.

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stevekemp7y ago

Reader, Orkut (yeah!), and Wave were the three I can remember off-hand. I suspect there were more.

I know that I had to cope with some changes to their map-pricing recently too - so I moved to an alternative (easy to manage since I was using leaflet.js as a wrapper).

Rightly or wrongly though I now have the impression that their APIs/Services are not likely to remain.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse