Google owns some of the most important services in the world such as Gmail, YouTube or Google Maps. While everything Google does is not gold and big company G also makes its mistakes.
Google is a company and like any company its goal is to make money, don't make us happy. If one of your services is not profitable, close it, that's clear. That's why his graveyard is filled with apps and services that were, honestly, pretty cool.
2020 was no exception and we said goodbye to the great services and applications that have been with us for some years. Of these apps that we will mention below ... How many have you used?
Google Play Music
Google Play Music is no longer with us.
Perhaps one of the biggest leaks of this 2020. Well, what Google actually did was send all users of this app to YouTube Music, which is more or less the same service, so the loss wasn't very traumatic either.
The famous music app that was one of the main rivals of Spotify and Apple Music is dead. It's not that Google Play Music wasn't profitable, but that YouTube cannibalized him directly. And almost better, we're in favor of having everything focused on a single app and no more.
Google shoelaces
What is Google Shoelace? In mid-2019 Google unveiled Shoelace, a social network that only worked in New York and which served to bring together people with our same interests.
Why did Google shut down this social network in just one year? Well, the health situation in the world is rather complicated so Google thought that bringing together unknown people was not something very appropriate today. We totally agree.
Will Shoelace be back in the future? You never know, but we doubt it.
Google password extension
We continue to use passwords that are very easy to guess.
We have a multitude of accounts and passwords on the Internet. Sometimes remembering them all is very complicated and having them all written on paper is not the most comfortable thing to do. It is also true that many users use very weak passwords which put their security at risk.
This Google extension allowed us to actually verify the passwords we use in the Chrome browser have not been filtered or exposed, which is really necessary these days.
This useful tool has disappeared because this feature is now integrated into the Chrome browser itself, therefore it is "foolish" to keep him alive.
trusted contacts
Not all Google services are good ideas. Trusted Contacts was something quite difficult to understand and normal to have integrated into other Google applications such as Maps.
What did he do? We have selected some contacts of our choice and / or trust and from which we may request their position. In case they didn't send it, Google would send them to us.
As we say, this service has gone really unnoticed, although today it is integrated into Pixel phones. For the few users who used it, Google pointed them to Google Maps and its location sharing feature.
