• ryan@the.coolest.zone
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    1 year ago

    I just tried the photo sphere mode again for old times’ sake. It sure hasn’t gotten any better. Maybe they’re removing it so they can make and release a better version, but I won’t hold my breath.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, maybe, but hear me out: what if - crazy idea right here - they finish a fucking project before killing off the old one? Or, even wilder, maybe they improve the existing project? I’m about to blow this ceos mind with these radical ideas.

      Maybe not do things like…

      • Gmail to Inbox to Gmail;
      • GPlay Music to YT music;
      • Reader to;
      • Hangouts to Messenger to Alo to Messages to Chat (or whatever the fuck it’s called now) to Messages (but with RCS so it’s okay we improved it we swear) ;

      Google is like an adhd teen with no adult supervision or medication. It just decides that project x isn’t fun anymore and abandons it, but y will totally be better except it never is because y gets abandoned too because ooooh shiny.

      I’m not angry at all, noooooo. It’s not like most of the projects I used have been axed and replaced (or not) with shittier alternatives. I absolutely love moving friends and family to systems for a few months just to hear about ‘why doesn’t x work anymore’ and ‘you said x would be around for a while’. Fuck you, Google.

      /rant

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        Trust me, I still haven’t gotten over the untimely deaths of Inbox or Play Music, and my comment history will show me raging about Google’s inability to have a coherent messaging strategy. (By the way, you forgot the original Google Chat which was killed off before Hangouts!)

        It’s the same story every time. An app/service with excellent potential, left to stagnate for years, retired. It’s at the point I don’t bother trying anything new Google puts out because I can’t trust that I won’t be rugpulled again.

        Edit: my mistake, it was called Google Talk, which was renamed to Gmail Chat, which was killed off in favor of Hangouts.

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        I like to think of Google as a death fight between hundreds of unsupervised Product Managers all fighting for too few promotions.

        They don’t care about the users or the long term, just selling themselves and shitting on the competing PMs to make themselves look good.

        Then you’ve got an accounting department trying to reign in the unprofitable stuff for the investors.

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      1 year ago

      Well, it does the job, doesn’t it? I love this picture mode and would like to see it in more camera apps, now Google kills it too.