Technology

Another day another piece of Google tech tossed in the trash

How long until they shut down Search? It’s been dog shit for years.

killedbygoogle.com

Tip: just don't use Google products

Every single thing I use gets changed, ruined, shut down, canceled, moved, merged. It never ends.

Wound up giving up and using Google podcast BECAUSE other ones I used kept getting shut down.

FFS Google's killing another app I use all the time

At this rate I half expect Google Play books to be dead before 2025

I use it, I like it and it works with zero issues. It also easily works with my Google Home speaker. So of course it gets shut down. Because obviously. Sigh.

That said, Pocket Casts on iOS is also quite decent.

That's why I never used it, because I knew it will happen. Better to use some other solution. I wish there was a third party option to google chromecast and all the home devices that works as well.

They say it's crazy YouTube could end. I'm not so sure.

Another service that I didn't know google even offered until they announced it was dying. There are so many sources that podcast apps can pull from that we don't need half as many as we have.

Room to give a shout out to Podverse, free and open source!

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.podverse.fdroid/

Another one in the Google graveyard.

Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.

Honestly don't know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that's so good it's impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day

google tries not to kill one of it's products challenge (impossible)

I learned with Google music never get involved with Google with something you'll want to use daily. Google music hands down was the absolute best music service I've ever used. Google is like a kid with ADHD bouncing around from project to project never to see them through.

Yet another Google product that goes into the grave.

Anyone have a suggestion for a alternative simple light weight podcast app for android?

Edit: I installed antennapod and it's exactly what I was looking for. Very light weight and even open source. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Lol they had podcast 😅

It's been known for over a year that they're planning to replace it with YouTube music

Years ago, Google shut down services I used and since then, I don’t get involved in anything they put out there on the market. This will include their AI service.

Only thing they are allowed to provide me is email. I’m even using YT and search drastically less.

Lmao. I'm shocked.

I switched to Antennapod already. Nothing to complain about.

Another one bites the dust !

There's a website called "killed by google"

It's nice to see the giant graveyard of products they hyped up and then killed when a tiny percentage of people stopped using it for an instant.