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Google Trips app to be discontinued on August 5

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50 pointsRebelgecko22 comments

Definitely sucks that the app is being discontinued, it was really handy when I had a layover and wanted to do some quick exploration.

However, it looks like most of the functionality is being relocated to the Google Travel webpage (unless they pull an Inbox and only partially port things).

https://www.google.com/travel

On Google.com/travel, are the previous trips scraped from my gmail inbox or what is going on there?

In short, yes. It's parsing all the travel content it can find from your inbox and then inferring flight and accomodation bookings. Seems to be the same content in the app as /travel for me.

Why is anyone building any dependencies on google's ancillary apps at this point?

Seems like their whole purpose lately is to just create buzz on a launch, create a small dependent user base and then retire it when they realize they it doesn't contribute to their advertising base.

While that frequently seems to be the case, just reading their informational page about it seems to show that the functionality of this app is simply being moved to their other apps, namely Google Maps. This could be argued to be bloating up Maps, but this will also mean those features will probably be used by a lot more people now (and thus they'll make even more money in advertising).

Honestly, I don't see the problem here.

For the offline-available reservation feature of Google Trips, TripIt.com is a pretty good replacement. Some parts of TripIt are super outdated (I think Google Trips was originally a clone of some parts of TripIt), but it gets the job done well still.

Shocker, another discontinued app from Google

This is a big "dangit!" from me. I LOVED using this app on my recent trips. Any replacements?

Reader, Inbox, Trips, etc... what a surprise

https://google.com/travel. The functionality of the app is either already there or will be rolled into it.

IIRC Trips allowed the info to be offline, which is a big plus when travelling.

I had never heard of that app until this moment.

I used it once out of curiosity. It felt like a weird crossover of Maps and Inbox.

It was really convenient for traveling, especially now that Inbox trip bundles are discontinued. Put all your reservations in one handy place, available offline. The suggested itineraries were pretty good too.

Loved the concept but like most all of these new apps from Google, got no love, and lacked many basic features. Google continues to released half baked products don't give them love they fail because of it and then they kill them. Rather then devoting to continuous updates to make it something everyone uses. And these days I personally avoid most of the new apps, because there is such a high chance they will be killed off once you start using it.

This is a shame. App loads much faster than Maps. Maps is doggedly slow to load within the last year and seems to be getting worse.

Well they keep adding more stuff to it, including (according to the linked google page about this issue) functionality from the now-discontinued Google Trips app.

This was my favorite app for traveling and such an easy way to automatically see all my trip related reservations all together without having to do anything. It was also a great way to see all my previous trips

I was thinking about switching over to it since Roadtrippers keeps cranking down the number of legs you can have in a trip for the free version. I guess I won't, now.

Google Maps is a travel powerhouse. Makes sense to have things in one place.

I’m traveling Europe right now and I live out of Google Maps.

Used it a bunch and I'll add this to the Google products which they cancelled on me. I'm getting tired of this...

I've been slowly moving off of anything Google.

Most of the functionality can already be found at google.com/travel and additional functionality from the app is scheduled to be added there and at Google Maps.

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