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fart_pickle , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

https://killedbygoogle.com/

ramble81 ,

293 products and counting.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Someone stop this bloodthirsty maniac!

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

An unrelated thing killed by Google that just makes me giggle.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/c7decc75-321d-4a5f-a2df-53c0b5964867.png

So they upgraded phones once and then said, "fuck that."

Lol

Tja ,

Almost 2 years, so they didn't upgrade even once.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Right. Some people believed that they would somehow get a free phone after two years, so were extra pissed over it.

But all it really was was that you could start the program again and get another phone that you would pay off over the next two years.

mannycalavera , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk avatar

I guess they weren't so keen on it.....

elucubra , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

No way!

Computerchairgeneral , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

So experimental I didn't even know Google had a Pinterest-like social media platform.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
@RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social avatar

Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.

spiderman ,
@spiderman@ani.social avatar

why do they even do that when it's just gonna waste their resources?

vinyl ,

They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists

small44 , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

What's keen?

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Not Google

FartsWithAnAccent , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Never heard of it, ever.

Creat , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?

Theharpyeagle ,

It's just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don't use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.

Hadriscus ,

yep. I don't go near Google products anymore because I know I'm gonna have to migrate a short while later. I don't understand how they're not seeing this

kibiz0r ,

In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.

But the problem is, Google does this with everything.

Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.

At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.

Bishma , (edited ) to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
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I also never heard of this product, so the first thing I thought of was Keen Software House (makers of the game Space Engineers).

CurbsTickle , (edited )

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    ripcord ,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Billy Blaze!

    Kolanaki ,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    Grandson of Billy Blascowitz!

    ripcord ,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh man, please tell me that's cannon and I just missed it all these years.

    Edit: It is!!

    zalgotext ,

    Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)

    0ops ,

    I thought they made shoes

    MataVatnik , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
    @MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

    Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down

    shotgun_crab , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

    Another one bites the dust

    Caligvla , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    ... First time I've heard of it. Maybe that's why it's shutting down.

    Aerxi , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

    I know Google has a terrible reputation for killing their projects but this one is just an experiment from Area 120 so it's not surprising or terrible that they're killing it or weren't advertising it.

    Simon , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

    Shut down what?

    Dehydrated , to Technology in Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

    Never even heard of it

    nova_ad_vitum ,

    Me neither but I'm sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.

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