Google could have made podcasts awesome. Instead, it gave up on them.

The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists, eventually launches a competitor out of some other part of the company, obviously begins to deprecate it and shift focus to the new competitor, and then, years later, finally shuts it down for real. The Google Graveyard is full of apps like Reader, Duo, Inbox, Allo, Wallet, and countless others that have been through The Google Cycle, and it feels just as bad every time.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    Am I right that android/iOS apps require much more maintenance than PC programs? I can load up a copy of WinZip from 2000 and it would work fine, but anything that hasn’t been updated in a few years might be hidden on the app store for not working with my version.
    I think that’s the bigger issue. Developers can’t leave stuff up and just let it sit, because you need to maintain a developer acct to have anything listed, and os updates break things

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      andoid and ios basically have the flaw of having a centralized location for downloads, and is subject to those rules because its centralized and the majority use it.

      cant treat it that way on computers as much because how people install programs on computers are completely different than on mobile (more likely downloading it through web, or a different client on the web to download something, linux users are usually more technically inclined to hop distros or add their own download repositories if they didnt want to download software in their main native storefront)