Out of the over 200 things listed, are there others you take issue with besides angular?
- Picasa was much better than Google Photos
- Google+ as a social network is gone, for all intents and purposes
- Google Desktop Search isn't even mentioned
- most importantly they killed the original Google search. The quality we see today is how Googles competitors used to be ;-)
(The last is a joke, but also true, try this query and tell me how many of the top 10 results actually contains the phrase "express-http-proxy": https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m... . FWIW this ha been going on since at least 2013 which is the first occurence I can find where I document that they ignore both double quotes and verbatim: http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/?m=0)
Reading that subreddit is a guilty pleasure of mine. It reminds me a lot of how the Windows Phone subreddit was while that was still around.
This and the rest is a fair comment. Thank you for linking it. I'll personally be getting off the Google kills everything bandwagon (I'll stay on the Google is creepy as fuck bandwagon but that's unrelated)
Maybe that's worse for you? Not for me to decide. I'm not using Google services as best I can either way because they're an advertising company, but I will stop my personal contribution prattling off the Google closes everything comments.
I speak only for myself, a pet peeve on this site is people thinking every comment is a proclamation from the almighty. I'm just a fat bastard sitting on a toilet reading HN, I'm not telling you what to do
> Inbox -> GMail Features
Some features made it, but what I've heard from the people that used it was the complete redesign toward tasks instead of emails was what made it valuable, which hasn't happened to gmail.
> Google Wave -> Realtime collaboration in Google Docs/Slides/Sheets
The closest equivalent now is actually Slack. Google was too early to the party and didn't realize what could come of it.
For Google+, it says "Google Photos, Chat + Meet, Calendar Features, etc.", but these are in almost no way equivalent to a social media style stream with communities and circles and such.
Similar with Latitude, IIRC it was merged into G+ and then killed. The equivalent feature didn't exist at the time (not sure if it does now, my cause to use it then no longer applies.)