Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts

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Technology@lemmy.world – 577 points – 10 months ago

Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts

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Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

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Yet another Google product that goes into the grave.

virtually everything that Google developed in-house was a failure. Videos, social media, WiFi balloons, smart cities. They couldn't even keep an RSS reader running.

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?t=12m36s

How companies this incompetent became multibillion dollar monopolies is a mystery to me.

If you rewind the video a minute or two he explains that.

I didn't watch the video. Too busy watching other videos. Sad.

Which is why I’ll never use a Google product. Well except for gmail. I don’t have a choice because of work.

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