the End-to-End encryption using RCS on Android was just fine until Google changed the "aesthetics" of their messaging app so at-a-glance message delivery disappeared. #KilledByGoogle

(engineers at Google have no sense of usability OR elegant design ... their form over function is neither)

* even with triple zoom in the attached screenshot -- I don't read with glasses; even 1.25x magnifiers -- the previous double checkmark indicator is barely distinguished from an undelivered single check

Migrate GIF Search Provider from #Tenor to #Giphy and or #Klipy.

The Tenor API shutting down in June of this year.

https://support.google.com/tenor/answer/10455265#whatll-happen-to-the-tenor-api&zippy=%2Cwhatll-happen-to-the-tenor-api

#KilledByGoogle

🌀 After 25 Years, Google Has Finally Killed Dreamcast Web Browser Support

｢ Google has discontinued support for the Dreamcast's PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser.

While Sega shut down Dreamcast's servers many years ago, resourceful fans have been getting consoles online for some time now – and even creating private servers for many of the machine's games in the process ｣

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12/after-25-years-google-has-finally-killed-dreamcast-web-browser-support

#dreamcast #retro #killedbygoogle

Hype driven vapoware, isn't it?

Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-project-suncatcher-sundar-pichai-data-centers-space-solar-2027-2025-11

> Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.

#capitalism #technosolutionism #ai #llm #google #gafam #killedByGoogle #vaporware

I was in an electronics store today (all the lefthand buttons on my backbone one suddenly stopped working, so i got a new one on warranty)

Anyhow, i was passing the Chromebooks and they had this sign selling the "Google Chromebook experience"... And, well, i guess the picture can speak for itself...

#chromebook #killedByGoogle #computer