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The Messaging Solution Theory
We all know that one person. That family member that just can’t quite seem to get it together. They always have excuses about how the world is out to get them and how you wouldn’t understand, because life is so easy for you. In the very fluid world of Google services, messaging apps is this problem child. And seemingly whatever the company tries to do to make it right never seems to cut it.
The Google Graveyard
Google as a company likes to experiment with a lot of projects. They will develop a product and put it out there, it’s what so many people love about the company especially compared to the calculated nuance of Apple software product releases. This willingness to create something new also means that the company is very willing to kill products in the middle of their life cycle.
There is even a website dedicated to chronicling all of the products that Google has launched and subsequently killed. While there is quite the range of services that have been killed by the search giant ( I was especially annoyed when Google Reader went away), there seem to be no other killings more notorious than when the company kills off messaging and chat services.
