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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by wlesieutre on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:55AM (#13391217)
And GOOG-411 (didn't have a smartphone yet when they killed this, it was still useful), Google Labs (public access to experimental features in Gmail and other services), Buzz (jk nobody misses that), Reader, Code Search, Q&A, iGoogle portals, and plenty of others.
Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by vram22 on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:45PM (#13392748)
Didn't know that Google Labs was shut down. Some of the Gmail Labs were useful - and some have probably gone mainstream by now. The one that reminds you if you use a word like "attached" in your email, but have no attachment, comes to mind. I tried at least half a dozen of them, may have only kept using one or two. Still, the Labs idea was good.
Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by mcintyre1994 on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:51PM (#13393482)
Undo send originated there as well.
Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by throwaway1892 on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:11AM (#13410754)
I've been using it for years, so I did not realised they had closed Labs in the interim.
Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by vram22 on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:58PM (#13394642)
Right, good point. That has saved me a few times from accidentally sending an incomplete email - luckily not anything worse :)
Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by chx on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:41PM (#13392716)
Google Questions. I know it's been long ago and there were problems but when you needed it for real it worked wonders.