• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Google can’t even stick to a fucking chat client. I absolutely do not trust them to support a game.

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      11 months ago

      They should recognize that some products are just utilities that need to be there for their ecosystem, even if they aren’t first class contenders or leaders in the space. How brave do you have to be to believe that having a chat client is better, in the end, than having no chat client?

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      11 months ago

      Google can’t even stick to a fucking chat client.

      Remember when YouTube briefly included a chat client so you could send videos to friends and talk about them without leaving the app?

      I swear that must have been live for all of a month…

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          11 months ago

          This is what I really hate about Google’s strategy. Every one of these dozens of chat apps Google has come up with has been loved by somebody. Even if it’s not many people.

          Finding something you love and having it taken away from you because the developers couldn’t be bothered supporting it feels so much worse than if that something never existed at all. If Google isn’t willing to support things, they shouldn’t be releasing it to the market. They’ve now gotten themselves in a position where people don’t trust them to support things long term, and that is in turn making it harder for them to release new products and services because usage numbers are too low with everyone waiting to see if it lasts.