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Google recently killed off Pixel Pass, a service that would upgrade your Pixel phone after two years and include some extra goodies, like YT Premium, and 200 GB of Drive.

It lasted for only 23 months, meaning that nobody actually benefited from using this service, weeks before the Pixel 8 is released.

You can’t make this up. What an absolute joke of a company.

Show threadMair Oct 13, 2023

@yassie_j something I realised is that Google hasn't made a successful service since, well, Google lol

They just buy things that already work and turn them into Google services

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@Mair_ even Android wasn’t originally theirs!!
Show threadMair Oct 13, 2023

@yassie_j I legitimately can't think of a thing they started that hasn't turned out mediocre or been cancelled

Google office suite maybe? Even then it's mid as hell and basically worse than word online

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@Mair_ Search and… Gmail… Maybe Chromecast. I think that’s about it. The Pixel phones are good hardware, but good lord the software occasionally is awful
Show threadtokiohotelfan741 :ncas::freebsd: (neet arc)
@[email protected] @Mair_ chromecast had a predecessor that tried to compete with apple on the wrong ground

i don't know what it was called, the Nexus Orb?
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@instereo256 @Mair_ yes you’re right OMG, it absolutely sucked in every way possible