This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips

Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by scarface74 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:28PM (#20117487)

That doesn’t explain one high profile product that was killed that was universally loved - Google Reader.

But from the writeup, it doesn’t seem like this product was a failure.

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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by evmar on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:05PM (#20120436)

I explained the Reader phenomenon here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116287

(I loved it too.)

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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by scarface74 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:04PM (#20120729)

Let’s look at Apple Podcasts - the app and the directory. It doesn’t make Apple any money, they don’t host any of the podcasts. They just provide an index and once you subscribe to a podcast, the app polls the podcast’s creators website directly. The podcast directory also has a freely available API that is available to any other player.

It is the dominant player and directory. Do you think Apple is going to kill it? Google killed Reader with similar dominance.

I’m not saying Apple is always on the side of the angels. But in this case they have kept their podcast directory maintained since 2005.

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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by c0vfefe on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:33AM (#20124903)

This link does not explain Reader.

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