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Someone in that org needs to be an adult and say no to pointless rebrands and brain dead consolidation. Literally nobody, even Google, is benefiting from this spastic behavior.
Plenty of people are benefiting you just don't see it because it's internal.
The incentives are such that new thing is better and looks better on your year end goals.
Plus when an org gets large enough and siloed enough the left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing.
Yep. Making a new thing is how you get promoted. Maintaining or improving an old thing is nearly useless, even at companies with competent managers.
This is the same reason why a lot of companies have awful security practices. From the managers' perspectives, they're burning valuable engineer time on something that doesn't produce any tangible benefits besides reducing the possibility of a lawsuit. And that lawsuit is probably cheaper to just pay up, rather than pay for all that engineer effort.
Stop! Stop! He's already dead!
But seriously wtf Google. Commit to something besides advertising. I thought I was bad at never finishing my projects.
Forget never finishing, you should see the stuff they've killed:
Never trust Google with anything long term. They've got the commitment of a teenager who just decided they want to learn guitar.
Hey hey, now I feel personally attacked and wasn't even a teenager when I quit learning guitar.
You guys quit learning guitar? I haven't even started learning yet
Note that a few of these are misleading...
AngularJS no longer exists because the library switched to TypeScript (which can be used with JavaScript code) and is now just called Angular. For the non-developers, TypeScript and JavaScript are mostly cross-compatible, and having a typing system makes way more sense for what Angular tries to accomplish. They didn't actually kill the project.
The Google Duo app also got more or less facelifted into Google Meet, so it's not like it's actually dead.
Those things being said, the amount of things on that list is pretty crazy. Especially the ones that were straight up canceled and not rebranded/replaced.
I am definitely still bad at the projects thing. Like, I'm not even sure I still have projects. More like things I used to want to do, but can't because my I don't wanna gets in the way. But I still want to finish them.
I remember Duo and Allo coexisting at some point in time. Duo had always been about video calls, and Allo had always been about chatting (unless it had a secret video callcall feature I forgot about).
Still a good joke though
Yeah they were separate apps launched together (galaxy brain idea). Allo was then canned pretty early on.
And Allo Allo was about French resistance speaking with England.
DAE remember Orkut?
I’ve never deleted an email from my inbox and I have all of the sunset emails from them, including this one!
I loved the structure of G+, but to say it lifted off is hysteric.
Nice blast from the past, thanks!
I wasn't terribly surprised when they ended it, but it was kinda a bummer
Some unique features of Orkut included:
- "Crush List": A feature that allowed users to list their crushes on their profile[3].
- Testimonials: Users could write testimonials for each other, adding a personal touch to profiles[3].
- Customizable Themes: Orkut allowed users to customize the look of their profiles with different themes[2].
- Rankings: Users could be rated by friends based on categories like how sexy, cool, or trustworthy they were, leading to top ten lists[5].
- Fans: Users could amass fans on Orkut, creating a sense of popularity and social interaction[5].
God imagine those features suddenly showing up on Instagram or Facebook
Citations: [1] Orkut - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut [2] 7 Reasons Why Orkut Failed https://www.feedough.com/why-did-orkut-fail/ [3] Why Orkut Failed: The Rise and Fall of a Social Media Giant https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-orkut-failed-rise-fall-social-media-giant-subhanshu-kumar [4] Orkut Throwback: Then popular social media site remembered as 'farewell mail' goes viral https://www.indiatvnews.com/technology/news-orkut-farewell-mail-goes-viral-people-remembers-on-twitter-see-how-they-reacted-631992 [5] Understanding the Rise of Social Networking in Brazil - Connected Learning Alliance https://clalliance.org/blog/understanding-the-rise-of-social-networking-in-brazil/
I never used all those features, but I remember it being a super comfy platform with nice ways to interact
It hurts! Now, let's look at Microsoft licensing. They have (or at least used to) certification on knowing MS licensing. 🤪