I tried to add more product names but Bing couldn’t handle so many product names that Google has killed.

I am a victim of Google Reader, Google One VPN, Google Podcast, Picasa, Google Play Music, Google for Domains, Stadia.

  • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    2012 days ago

    Oh man, Picasa was great. Remember when Google photos actually talked to Google drive?Will never forgive them for building a wall between those.

    • Cloudless ☼OP
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      1112 days ago

      Yeah. After so many years, Google Photo still doesn’t provide some key features that Picasa used to have.

  • @late_night@sopuli.xyz
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    1912 days ago

    Inbox was superior in every way, that’s what did it for me. I also remember the good old days of iGoogle, a page that could be customized with widgets, and Schemer where users could set challenges and goals for other users.

    • Cloudless ☼OP
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      612 days ago

      It makes no sense at all why they killed iGoogle. It was the best place for an ad company to show ads.

  • Lemminary
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    1012 days ago

    RIP Picasa. It was so good!

    And also the RSS feed on the desktop was nice while it lasted. Looking back, it was hideous but I loved it.

  • *Tagger*
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    612 days ago

    Stadia lives in my heart. I still have the app installed.

    • Cloudless ☼OP
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      712 days ago

      Stadia was severely underrated and misunderstood, and Google was to blame.

      It was a great solution for me who didn’t want to purchase a game console but wanted to play games occasionally.

      • tjhart85
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        612 days ago

        Yeah, and I can’t speak for everyone here, but I didn’t even bother trying it even though I was intrigued. It seemed like the kind of thing that could be completely game-changing and I wasn’t willing to get hooked on another Googler’s pet project that’d just get the axe in a few years. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy at this point, nothing new is likely to get any traction because no one wants to run the risk and then Google cancels it. If they were willing to put in writing that they’ll support something for x number of years (that’s end user facing, not just whatever contracts they make with devs or whatever), it’d probably go a long way, but they’re not willing to support an expensive flop if the product is what actually sucks, so, they’re not likely to do that.

        Hell, even anything older still runs the risk at any time :-\

      • @Glowstick@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Xbox gamepass does the same thing. You can play tons of xbox games in any web browser. No xbox hardware needed

        • Cloudless ☼OP
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          612 days ago

          Xbox Game Pass rotates games all the time. That means if I want to play a 50-hour RPG, I might have to finish the game before it gets rotated out. And Xbox doesn’t make the schedule available.

          With Stadia I could purchase games and play it at my own pace, even without a subscription.

            • Cloudless ☼OP
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              412 days ago

              AFAIK, you can purchase the games but the purchased games are only playable via Xbox/Windows.

              Xcloud is limited to the games available via subscription. Unless they changed this recently.

            • Cloudless ☼OP
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              312 days ago

              Official Xbox FAQ says:

              The games available to play with cloud gaming vary based on platform and region. You can find the latest selection of titles available for cloud gaming here: Xbox Game Pass Games Library

              That means only games in the Game Pass library is playable via cloud.