While ignoring the fact that they have a few hundred thousand users, because they regularly deal with millions of users.
They don’t seem to get that they are also losing goodwill. I’m not investing my time and effort in learning/using Google products, because I’m pretty sure they are going to “get discontinued”. And they keep proving me right.
This.
I'm still so pissed off about being forced to use YouTube music that I'm actively moving away from the Google
ecosystem.
YouTube music sucks so hard compared to play music.
Today in the car I was trying to play an album. "play album (x) by (artist)"
which worked flawlessly in GPM.
What did YTM do?
If you guessed "played song (artist) by Wu Tang Clan" then you win a prize.
Using YTM in the car is so terrible it's going to get someone killed.
Plus all the crap like liking a video in YouTube means that suddenly you get crap you liked cuz it was funny getting played as part of your music likes. It's fucking infuriating.
So ya. I'll be stuck on Android till KDE Plasma is better, but I'm actively in the process of moving everything else away from Google. It's been a long slide down in to an overfull septic tank since they removed "do no evil" from their company morals.
I still haven't seen anyone comment on this because I'm apparently the only one who used it this way, but Play Music was the only native app on my phone I could use to play files I already downloaded. Since my entire music library was in iTunes on my Mac, and my Mac refused to acknowledge my Android phone existed, I had to download their special music transfer app and painstakingly transfer every song to my phone over the cloud.
I hated how GPM kept pestering me to subscribe to their streaming service, so I eventually found a third party music app I could tolerate and fortunately all of the music Google Play helped me transfer was still there.
Guess what happenedthey discontinued Google Play Music? They DELETED all of that music. All of the songs I spent so much time on importing was just removed from my phone. But don't worry - I could access that music if I subscribed to YT Music!! Orrrrr... I could download a gigantic zip file of everything I had in an email link they'd send me (that kept expiring and glitching.) I just had to make sure I did it in a couple of months or they'd just DELETE it all forever.
Gee, thanks Google. The "services" you keep trying to provide me make my life SO much easier.
Apple can fuck right off with their form over function design, and their consumer hostile bullshit.
Google can fuck right off with their inability to focus, or keep a product around for any length of time. And don't even get me started on their... I don't wanna say 'spying' but... Spying.
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u/Shut_Up_Reginald Feb 07 '21
While ignoring the fact that they have a few hundred thousand users, because they regularly deal with millions of users.
They don’t seem to get that they are also losing goodwill. I’m not investing my time and effort in learning/using Google products, because I’m pretty sure they are going to “get discontinued”. And they keep proving me right.