Google seems determined to lose me as a customer altogether.
- 2013: Google kills Google Reader for RSS feeds. Never found a replacement I was as happy with.
- 2014: I loved the first version of AngularJS. Angular 2.0 was a complete rewrite of the first version. Switched to learning React instead (now I'm a huge Svelte fan, for the record.)
- 2017-2018?: Forget what it was called now, but Google's services for domains stops being free. I've got several family members on that and didn't want us to all lose Gmail, so I'm currently paying ~$6 per person and pretending our family is a "business".
- 2019: Google kills off Inbox. My email organization goes to shit. I'm trying hey.com currently, but still waiting/hoping I can use my google "business" on that so emails come from that domain, not hey.com...
- 2019: Google kills off the Works with Nest API, and my new Home Assistant installation can't talk to my smoke alarm. I cancel plans to buy a Nest Thermostat and get an EcoBee instead.
- 2019: I migrated off of Google Play Music and over to Spotify when they started dismantling the former and pushed people to use Youtube Music instead.
- 2019: Google Chrome slowly turning into surveillance software pushed me to switch back to Firefox.
- 2020: Google Fit used to track reps/rest time when weight lifting, but they removed that for some reason. Along with everything else they removed, I used FitnessSyncer to migrate all my health data to Apple Health.
- 2021: Now, the "new" Google Pay doesn't have the membership card feature from the "old" Google Pay, so I've lost all that data now. I'm going back to a wallet full of membership cards unless I can figure out how to add arbitrary cards to Apple Wallet.
I lost most of my faith in Google years ago, and they're still finding innovative ways to disappoint me.
- 2013: Google kills Google Reader for RSS feeds. Never found a replacement I was as happy with.
- 2014: I loved the first version of AngularJS. Angular 2.0 was a complete rewrite of the first version. Switched to learning React instead (now I'm a huge Svelte fan, for the record.)
- 2017-2018?: Forget what it was called now, but Google's services for domains stops being free. I've got several family members on that and didn't want us to all lose Gmail, so I'm currently paying ~$6 per person and pretending our family is a "business".
- 2019: Google kills off Inbox. My email organization goes to shit. I'm trying hey.com currently, but still waiting/hoping I can use my google "business" on that so emails come from that domain, not hey.com...
- 2019: Google kills off the Works with Nest API, and my new Home Assistant installation can't talk to my smoke alarm. I cancel plans to buy a Nest Thermostat and get an EcoBee instead.
- 2019: I migrated off of Google Play Music and over to Spotify when they started dismantling the former and pushed people to use Youtube Music instead.
- 2019: Google Chrome slowly turning into surveillance software pushed me to switch back to Firefox.
- 2020: Google Fit used to track reps/rest time when weight lifting, but they removed that for some reason. Along with everything else they removed, I used FitnessSyncer to migrate all my health data to Apple Health.
- 2021: Now, the "new" Google Pay doesn't have the membership card feature from the "old" Google Pay, so I've lost all that data now. I'm going back to a wallet full of membership cards unless I can figure out how to add arbitrary cards to Apple Wallet.
I lost most of my faith in Google years ago, and they're still finding innovative ways to disappoint me.