Google announced this week that it’s pulling the plug on two services: Google Podcasts and the Basic HTML version of Gmail (which lets you read your email like it’s 2004). While some folks may have preferred the classic Gmail experience for its simple, lightweight design, Google says users have had more than a decade to […]
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Google Glass is deader than ever
It’s been more than a decade since Google first unveiled Google Glass, a wearable device designed to put a heads-up display in front of your eyes so you wouldn’t have to stop to look at your phone or PC. The platform never really took off as a consumer product, so Google shifted its focus to […]
Google Stadia is shutting down in January, Google will refund hardware and software purchases
You can add Google’s Stadia game-streaming platform to the long and growing list of products that were Killed by Google. Google has announced that it’s shutting down the service in January. The good news is that folks who’ve spent money on Stadia hardware, games, in-game content should receive refunds. Stadia launched in November, 2019 as […]
Google Cloud Print set to drift away by the end of 2020
Google Cloud Print is a service that lets you connect an internet-enabled printer to your Google account and then send print jobs to it from a phone, Chromebook, or just about anything else with web access. First introduced a decade ago as a solution for sending print jobs from Chromebooks to a printer, Google Cloud […]
Google builds a graveyard for its own dead products (for Halloween)
Google is responsible for some of the most widely used software in the world including Android, Gmail, YouTube, Google Assistant, and of course Google Search. But the company also has a habit of killing off popular products because they’re not popular enough for a company of Google’s size to keep them around, or because they don’t […]