• Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Voroxpete
      67·
      10 months ago

      Forget never finishing, you should see the stuff they’ve killed:

      https://killedbygoogle.com/

      Never trust Google with anything long term. They’ve got the commitment of a teenager who just decided they want to learn guitar.

      • Senseless@feddit.de
        18·
        10 months ago

        Hey hey, now I feel personally attacked and wasn’t even a teenager when I quit learning guitar.

        • Lepsea
          11·
          10 months ago

          You guys quit learning guitar? I haven’t even started learning yet

      • Zangoose@lemmy.one
        13·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • GloriousGouda@lemmy.myserv.one
      4·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
    98·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      76·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • sqibkw@lemmy.world
        36·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • funkless_eck
      5·
      10 months ago

      People with cerebal palsy can’t help it, google did this deliberately.

  • TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml
    25·
    10 months ago

    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

  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    12·
    10 months ago

    It hurts! Now, let’s look at Microsoft licensing. They have (or at least used to) certification on knowing MS licensing. 🤪

  • Moss@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
    6·
    10 months ago

    Still haven’t forgiven them from taking what I believe to be one of the greatest computer/phone interfaces of all time (stock android 11/10) and innovating it into what looks like a phone for children (android 12+)