They have ~100 left.
https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/
What do you think will go next?
I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year.
1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings
Google Voice seems to have been added to Enterprise, so I cross my fingers it will prevail.
Meet is for (planned) Meetings.
Chat is for text/audio/video chats/calls.
> The open source archive of the Tilt Brush code can be found at: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush. Please note that it is not an actively developed product, and no pull requests will be accepted.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt...
Killed by Google will add pretty much anything to the list. It doesn't need to be a product. It doesn't really need to be by Google. And it doesn't even need to be killed.
Also it's a sidebar, but astroturfing by company employees who stand to benefit from increased stock prices on comment boards such as this seems problematic.
We have however wound down most of the protective measures. Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.
It's just as dangerous (well, it's probably not, due to less lethal variants winning over more lethal ones), but that measure is not what makes it no longer a pandemic.
Per the WHO[1] and the CDC[2] COVID is still a pandemic.
[1]: https://www.who.int/news/item/30-01-2023-statement-on-the-fo...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of...
Google does not have their own app. Exposure Notifications is the cross-vendor low-level API which apps like Germany's is (...was) using.
Can you imagine living in such a community?
I can't believe people rely upon gmail for anything. Integrate anything.
When I see a business using gmail for a backend, I question their entire business model, because I question their judgement.
I happen to feel the same way about companies that use JIRA... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It works much faster than the Google Translate app for translating text and it also helps identify any plants or landmarks that catch the eye.
I hope that technology never gets killed.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23761905/google-lens-skin...
I was thinking more in terms of why it needs to exist as a separate app.
It also better follows my note taking habits. It is usually a single sentence I want to be timestamped and searchable (which is also why I wrote https://github.com/wsw70/dly to simplify the quick note taking)
Keep is good for grocery lists and ephemeral data, but too easy to delete a note and no way to backup — well maybe takeout works for backup.
I'll be inconvenienced if I lose Keep- it's very handy and I use it extensively on a daily basis. But there are plenty of competitors in that market space- some excellent ones are open source.
Open sourced 3 years ago. https://openbrush.app
Other way around: they're pushing Lens over reverse image search now.
Yet.
Agreed, but it's sensible to keep it as an asset should another pandemic arise - and we have quite a number of potential pathogens, from an evasive COVID mutation over a ton of bat-related viruses and currently-frozen Russian permafrost archives to bird flu.
Of course we also had another app called Luca, which tried to do a lot more direct contact tracing and turned out to be extremely insecure and leak user data, so there's that. And of course there were some plausible corruption allegations relating to its public funding.
Exposure Notifications is not an app, but a framework and a protocol, and CWA was an implementation of it, hooking in the features developed by Apple and Google for iOs and Android
[0]: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma...