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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by tdeck on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:58PM (#45555090)
I'm still amused that they killed Google Notebook and then a few years later created Google Keep, an application with basically the same exact feature set.
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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by TheCapeGreek on Sunday October 12, 2025 @01:22AM (#45555473)
You can say that for a fair few of the services mentioned by GP.

Google killed a lot of things to consolidate them into more "integrated" (from their perspective) product offerings. Picasa -> Photos, Hangounts -> Meet, Music -> YT Premium.

No idea what NFC Wallet was, other than the Wallet app on my phone that still exists and works?

The only one I'm not sure about is Chromecast - a while back my ones had an "update" to start using their newer AI Assistant system for managing it. Still works.

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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by jychang on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:15AM (#45557303)
They stopped making the Chromecast hardware
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