Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:46PM (#19557316)

Probably also explains why their messaging strategy is completely incomprehensible too. I still have no idea what apps do what, which ones provide video or audio or text or both.

I have a hangouts and voice app on my phone and they appear to have duplicate functionality. I’m not joking — I receive the same notifications on both.

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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by munk-a on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:58PM (#19557452)

I was super pleased the other day when I needed to fall back on a personal device to join a meeting via GSuite and realized that because it was a meetup my hangouts app didn't work for it.

I also enjoy that calendar is also a separate and distinct thing so it's possible for me to get three notifications for a single meeting.

Now that's what I call usability and a solid product! If only they could improve this experience by raising the price of their business suite by 20% then I'd be really tickled!

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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by chewz on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:05PM (#19557516)

I have Google Assistant app but to change settings I must use Google app but some settings like volume, room etc. could be controlled via Google Home app.

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