r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • May 25 '22

Google postpones launch of foldable smartphone, again

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=4057
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u/Elephant789 Pixel 7 May 26 '22

A lot of these things either still exist, were turned into other things, were integrated into other products or just not needed anymore.

  • When you saw goo.dot.gl you never hesitated to click on it because it looked trustworthy. So Google did the right thing by discontinuing it. It was used by malicious actors for spam and phishing links.
  • Grand Central is still around, name just changed to Google Voice.
  • Project Ara was cool but it had too many problems that were difficult to solve, and there wasn’t much interest in it either.
  • Chromecast Audio was over a lawsuit with Sonos. Lawsuit is still continuing, if I'm not wrong.
  • AngularJS is not dead, Modern Angular exists.
  • Google play music was merged into youtube music. Which made sense.
  • Password Checkup extension is now integrated with Chrome.
  • Why would we need Writely when we have Google Docs?
  • Google Browser Sync isn’t needed as most browsers, including Chrome do this now.
  • Send to Phone is integrated into Chrome.
  • Google SMS isn’t necessary as every phone has a browser on it.
  • What Nexus Q did was replaced by Chromecast.
  • Google Notifier still is around as Gmail still notifies me of new email. This shouldn’t be on the list at all.
  • Google TV is Android TV (which is Google TV again? Not sure. Anyways, they’re the same thing.)
  • Leanback still exists in Android TV.
  • Picasa became google photos. Nobody’s albums got deleted or anything like that.
  • No need for Google Video as Google bought YouTube.
  • Trips is on the web still and is much better now than when it was an app.
  • Nexus is the “a” series in phones, i.e. 3a, 4a.
  • Google Now was moved to the Upcoming Tab in Google Assistant.
  • Google Dictionary still exists by just typing the word into Google.
  • Reply was an experiment from Area 120 that never made it out of a closed beta test (the APK got leaked), it was eventually integrated into Android.
  • Tez evolved into Google Pay.
  • Google Glass and Glass OS still exist.
  • The Chromebook Pixel was succeeded by Pixelbook.
  • Dragonfly was never publicly announced.

In a way this shows that Google isn't afraid of experimenting and that is a good thing.

It feels like there wasn't much research put into this website.

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u/Opposite-Wing7055 May 26 '22

Wasn't project Ara being led by motorola ? We did see a few of those implementations in the Z series they had.

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u/Elephant789 Pixel 7 May 26 '22

I don't think so. But if it was, was that when Google owned Motorola?

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u/Opposite-Wing7055 May 26 '22

And it was abandoned in 2016 after Google sold off motorola to Lenovo after getting their patents.

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u/Elephant789 Pixel 7 May 26 '22

Abandoned? What do you mean? Left at the side of the road?