We make products and services that last forever. Until we kill them.

After four months in operation, “the Google Photos subscription service that allows users to print their photos for free will be discontinued, the Mountain View company confirmed earlier today.” It’s become a running joke that if you invest your time and/or content on a Google product, it’s only a matter of time before it will be discontinued—often in the most painful and unsatisfying way possible. I therefore thought it only fitting to provide a placeholder for the next discontinued product or service announcement.

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Welcome to Hell: Google Play Music to be replaced by YTMUSA Today reporter and Cake community member @JeffersonGrahamPhoto has shared the news that will instill fear in the hearts of GPM diehards like @jpop. > For fans who have built extensive libraries ...www.cake.co

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Google is shutting down its Photos subscription serviceThe Google Photos subscription service that allows users to print their photos for free will be discontinued, the Mountain View company confirmed earlier today.www.phonearena.com

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I used Google Fusion Tables to host some GPS Track data for my NZ based motorcycle website, Fusion Tables was killed off in December 2019 and I haven't yet found a service that offers the same loading speed as Fusion Tables did.

Google Fusion TablesGoogle Fusion Tables was a web service provided by Google for data management. Fusion tables can be used for gathering, visualising and sharing data tables. Data are stored in multiple tables that Internet users can view and download. The web service provided means for visualizing data with pie charts, bar charts, lineplots, scatterplots, timelines, network graphs, HTML-formatted card-layouts, and geographical maps.en.wikipedia.org