Even without reading the article, this is what I came to add. Now they have a service of this nature, the need and urgency of saying goodbye to Google has increased tremedously.
I'm sorry to see the service go. It carried my through the pandemic. I do have to say I'm impressed, as this is a very user-centric move from Google. Big kudos for that.
You mean because you think that a service with 3 million paying organizations and the core part of Google's strategy to get greater adoption in enterprise and schools is going to disappear?
Google's done a great job shutting down much used and loved services. Perhaps it'd be a good idea for them to get behind what they're committed to supporting long term and make some public commitments.
It was only a matter of time. It is a Google product after all. It's basically their thing at this point. "Hey look at this fantastic new service from Google" should be met with "No thanks, they'll close it and I'll lose everything".
Perhaps this is a good thing. Google has gotten too big and to many people rely on it in various ways. If Google cannibalizes itself then noone will need to bother killing it.
2018 article. Should be reflected in the title. Took me a while to figure out “hey didnt this happen already”:
“ But on Monday, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) announced it would shut down Google+ over the next 10 months ”
The article has been on HN for an hour. It has 8 comments, 5 of which were my first thought - why on earth would you expect this service to hang around, based on Google's track record?
Wether it lasts or not, this surely has to be an issue for Google innovations going forward? If the perception is that any new thing will die, especially not-consumer-scale things, then how do they build traction?
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