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
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.
I swear Google operates more like a startup incubator at times, creating almost entirely seperate companies within itsself that are just expected to handle everything and then when it doesn’t work they shut them down
Wasn’t that the whole point of the creation of Alphabet? That they’d have different business units with their own products?
And if it does work, they shut it down anyway, rebuild the product as something YouTube-branded and then abandon it anyway.
I’ve used it for language learning and it was a good tool. Does anyone know any FOSS alternatives?
Haven’t heard about this app until now…
I actually use this a lot at work in remote meetings. Damn it!!!
I use it for work moodboards because I’m a designer working with non designers who only use the Google suite. Feels like I’m one of the few people who will actually miss Jamboard. Guess I’ll need to make them all learn Figjam.
It’s used a lot in schools, too. Well, schools that use GAFE, anyway. That said, it seems like most school districts locally are switching to O365 instead, I think because of local hosting.
To use GAFE we need parental permission annually, and there’s always a few parents that don’t consent to their child’s data being hosted on American servers or whatever, so you never get 100% of the class with access. Makes it hard to use.
