I learn about most of Google projects, when they die.
They just buy good ideas to monetize the shit out of them without giving users new features, and when the revneu stream dies, they kill the app and but the “next best thing”.
Essentially, Google is killing creativity, expansion, usability and profitability for small companies just for the “ad revenue”.
I’m de-googling as fast as I can.
Is it really that? Man, this sucks. I thought all these were just R&D projects coming from Google themselves and they shut it when they find out it didn’t work the way they hoped.
That was true for some of the early projects. I doubt that they actually develop any of their tech from scratch now. It’s way easier to just buy it from someone else
I’ve used it for language learning and it was a good tool. Does anyone know any FOSS alternatives?
What’s that, Google is shutting down another program I’ve never heard of?
Seriously Google are the worst advertising company in the world which is pretty bad for an advertising company.
“We are shutting down the program down because no one uses it”, says company that doesn’t tell anybody about any of its products unless it’s another chat app.
