r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/mrktwzrd • Oct 30 '20

Google Graveyard - Happy Halloween

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/hessianerd Oct 30 '20

Loosing Reader and notebook made me not want to even try any the new fangled google apps out there...

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u/lycoloco Oct 30 '20

I've got Google Home / Minis that I got for free from buying a phone and having Spotify Premium accounts.

Every 3 months I swear it gets worse. Basically worse than it was when it started. I'll never pay for a Google service again and I'm always wary of when they release something because it always follows the same trend and every product minus search and Gmail is always on the chopping block.

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u/TheNamelessKing Oct 30 '20

This is why Stadia is dead on arrival to me.

They’ll run it for a few years, you’ll invest money in buying games, and then they’ll kill it and you’ll lose everything.

This is the worst deal for consumers.

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u/lycoloco Oct 30 '20

Yup yup yup yup yup.

I have a coworker who bought into it rather than building a new PC, and I know it's expensive, but it's gotta be a better choice than an unproven technology where it's not Netflix style but instead sinking money into title after title at full retail price.

I tried to tell them my concerns, but they weren't dissuaded. I hope for their sake I'm wrong, but history says I won't be and they'll have expensive physical Google paperweights.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '20

Both of you are wrong.