{"id":42756,"date":"2024-04-04T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:32:54","slug":"google-podcasts-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/google-podcasts-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Podcasts Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Google Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall<\/a> that it was killing its dedicated podcast app in order to focus all its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music. This is a bad idea and a big downgrade, and I’d be more mad if only I were more surprised.<\/p>

The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat features, immediately seems to forget it exists, eventually launches a competitor out of some other part of the company, obviously begins to deprecate it and shift focus to the new competitor, and then, years later, finally shuts it down for real. The Google Graveyard<\/a> is full of apps like Reader, Duo, Inbox, Allo, Wallet, and countless others that have been through The Google Cycle, and it feels just as bad every time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t been bitten by Google killing an app or service since Google Reader, because I never again trusted them. I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users, but I honestly don’t even remember the last time I added a new Google app or service to the set of tools I rely upon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

YouTube is irreplaceable. I wouldn’t want to be without Google Maps. Other than that, I use Google Search, Google News, Google Cloud Storage (with Arq), and Google Wi-Fi, all of which have decent alternatives. AdSense doesn’t, but it seems to have gotten a lot worse and isn’t doing much for me these days. I stopped using AdWords a while ago because it seemed untrustworthy. I also have a Nest Cam, which Google hasn’t supported very well.<\/p>\n\n

See also: Sunset<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2024-04-12): Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Google One VPN will be discontinued later this year, according to a customer email seen by Android Authority<\/a><\/em>. The service was rolled out for Android in October 2020, before coming to iOS devices and Macs in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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