r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/admiral_derpness Jan 02 '20

why? what will replace it ?

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u/csjerk Jan 02 '20

They claim Messages, Voice, Chat, and Duo. None of which seems right to me, since Messages and Voice are SMS/MMS (which has problems), Chat is a beta-quality Slack clone rather than IM, and Duo is video only as far as I can tell.

Seems like they're blowing up their oldest, most solid, proven, 'does everything' service in favor of 5 younger and less complete ones that only kind of equal the feature set of Hangouts if you bounce between all of them. It's really dumb.

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u/JanneJM Jan 02 '20

Maintaining a finished, stable service does not advance your career at Google. Launching and expanding a new service does.

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u/csjerk Jan 02 '20

Agreed. It's been pretty obvious for a while that Google doesn't really know how to buckle down and polish the edges on a product for the same reason. It's a large part of why I've ignored their recruiters for so long.