Ars story on recent Google history of shutting down or abandoning features,
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/ . Those who wonder just how long will Google support Stadia game streaming have legit concerns.
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It's only April, and 2019 has already been an absolutely brutal year for Google's product portfolio. The Chromecast Audio
was discontinued January 11. YouTube annotations were
removed and deleted January 15. Google Fiber
packed up and left a Fiber city on February 8. Android Things
dropped IoT support on February 13. Google's
laptop and tablet division was reportedly slashed on March 12.
Google Allo shut down on March 13. The "Spotlight Stories" VR studio
closed its doors on March 14. The goo.gl URL shortener
was cut off from new users on March 30. Gmail's
IFTTT support stopped working March 31.
And today, April 2, we're having a Google Funeral double-header: both
Google+ (for consumers)
andGoogle Inbox are being laid to rest. Later this year, Google Hangouts "
Classic" will
start to wind down, and somehow also scheduled for 2019 is Google Music's
"migration" to YouTube Music, with the Google service being put on death row sometime afterward.
We are 91 days into the year, and so far, Google is racking up an unprecedented body count. If we just take the official shutdown dates that have already occurred in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.