Things don't always work out, it's no mystery. The problem is when you try many times and the fiascos are piled up. Those of us who have been on Android for a while now have noticed that Google apps are accumulating a curious graveyard. And it is not uncommon since Google does not hesitate to abandon one of these apps when it sees that it has no bellows.
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We tried to use everything we can for the whole week the most abandoned line of Google apps of the great G. Worth it?
We will review the biggest failures of Google. We will not go in ascending order, since in their own way they are all unique, but we will show the “pattern” that the company follows to abandon these poor apps that could not work.
The most recent: goodbye Google+
We are in the era of social networks. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram dominate the landscape and move billions of people. Therefore, Google was not going to stop trying in that field. His proposal was Google+, a network based on circles of friends that we say was a failure from birth.
The problem with this network is that it was practically integrated into our Google Suite (the compendium of apps we usually use). In addition, the network had nothing interesting about the proposals of Twitter, for example, and its micro messages. No doubt the trigger for his downfall was not only this, but the a lot of problems it gave.
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A few weeks ago a scandal shook the social network filtering data from thousands of users. Google announced that it would close the network in 10 months because of the low acceptance, but the funny thing was that it did so just hours after the scandal was known. The thing has been so ridiculous that it is not even known if the developers who had access to the data they used them for something or if they had even heard.
As a curious detail: according to Google, 90 percent of users who signed into the network lasted less than 5 seconds. Good bye, Google+.
A premature death: why, Google Allo?
When instant messaging was established a few years ago there were many applicants and only a few great queens: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram. In September 2016, when these three apps were more entrenched than ever, Google decided to try their luck with the same proposal: Google Allo.
This app, personally, seemed great. A design that pleased, Google Assistant integrated and also worked very well. We know what Google's specialists are when it comes to software, and it also has added features such as stickers, GIFs, and a desktop version like Telegram or WhatsApp, but much more polished.
The problem was that it came at a time when WhatsApp was (and is) the queen of messaging apps. Although Telegram does not have such a large volume of users, it has positioned itself as its best alternative. Allo simply It has been a complete unknown to all of us. And, of course, Google closed its development to try another future app called Chat.
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Hangouts, like Google+, will only be seen in companies
Before Google Allo the company wanted to keep trying in the field of instant messaging, but surpassing the same old contenders. What does this mean? That was born Hangouts, a messaging platform whose purpose was to bring group work and mass talks to most common scenario.
It was a failure. Hardly anyone used it and not because the application was bad at all. Hangouts had many advantages over its rivals, such as the possibility of creating groups and calls with more friends in a very simple way. In addition, it could be used from the computer and its interface was intuitive and pleasant. But, as always, he did not know how to deal with WhatsApp and now, like Google+, it will be only for companies.
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Definitely Google Spaces It is proof that the company has a certain curse with messaging apps, no matter how well they are. An application that was intended to have spaces for groups of people and chat between them on various topics. 9 months lasted, and look it was well done.
Spaces's problem is that he worked on a topic that was too specific: talk about issues in a group. Are you going to download an app for it when do you create a group in WhatsApp or Telegram and ready? This fall was sound, and Google had to close due to the low user share.
Inbox was not a failure, but it was that it closed
Google has always (ironically) mastered email messaging with Gmail. But, seeing the changes that this type of industries usually undergo, he decided that he wanted to check his future with an app that would serve as a field of experimentation: Inbox was born.
This app is amazing. An email manager that exceeds the classic Gmail in various functions and was also the first to receive the biggest changes that would eventually end up in Gmail. Google announced that it will close in March 2019 because right now both Inbox and Gmail are almost identical. And he does not lack reason.
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Google is an expert in having "repes" its apps. That is, it has several applications whose uses are stepped on each other. For example, Google Keep that has its organizational variant collides directly with Google Tasks, a better designed app that focuses on that point.
Honorable mentions: deceased services like Google Reader
Although these services that we will talk about now to finalize the list are not apps as such, they were failures that must be here as an honorary witness. We could not make this list without the mythical Google Reader, one of the first feeds Internet news and considered one of the best.
Born in 2005, it positioned itself as a great news center where you didn't have to be looking for all the pages and seeing them one by one. Reader allowed you to see the news summarized on the same platform, grouped and grouped as you wanted. All a stub that threw its closure in the year 2013.
How to forget from Google Buzz? It was this service in 2010 that was established as Google's first attempt to form a social network. Based on emails, it was barely received and suffered exactly the same failures as Google+ with privacy. For more inri, it was this one that caused the death of Buzz since Google+ unified all Google services in a single network that, as you know, was not too good.
We end with a failure of Google that draws our attention especially for the reason and the concept. Google Wave It was intended as a platform where users could share all types of files and documents in real time.
A good idea that saw its closure between 2012 and 2013 and whose motives were not known until later: The average user was not prepared for this service. Many would take it as an insult, but the reality is that, seeing its closure, it is clear that they might have been emboldened a little with the motive.
We conclude with a little reflection: Google must get rid of its repeated cards. We have too many apps of your ecosystem very similar to each other. And the big G should combine some of the services that work in a complete app. Google's graveyard of apps is already too big, and it's not something that suits you.
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