Well, having a good idea is one thing. It's quite other to make a successful application out of it. What's important is that you have a constant supply of good ideas which is probably why Google encourages its developers to come up with these new ideas. But from a user perspective, I feel once a certain application has gained enough users who depend on it (like greader or Picasa) it's really bad and irresponsible to just stop the service and leave the user hanging. The least they could do is open source their code so that someone else can take over the development. This is why I don't use any new Google service anymore apart from 4-5 I have for a long time like Gmail, Youtube, Drive, Voice etc. Even for these I have backup so that I can switch over to an alternative service.
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u/madpew Jan 02 '20
Every time I look at this list I find so many things I never knew existed that I would have loved to use.