Good riddance. Less bullshit to uninstall when I get a new phone.
This community is about Android, not about phones. Android is on phones and televisions.
Yes, but they were pointing out that this change doesn’t affect phones, meaning the other commenter didn’t read the article.
You’re right. From the article:
The company emailed users of Android TV to say that the "Google Play Movies & TV app will no longer be available on your Android TV device from 05 October 2023.
I wonder what the button on my TV remote will launch now? An error message? Or YouTube?
Google has truly mastered the fine arts of wasting money
I have no freaking idea what the hell Google is doing detaching all these apps then being extra aggressive at getting me to use it.
If I want a song, am I doing YouTube, YouTube Music, or Google Music?
Podcasts are even worst, because theres Google Podcasts too.
I swear this company used to have its shit together.
Ha fuck you pleeb. We so fucking rich we drivin’ g wagons to work wearing crocs and sweat pants then when g wagon gets full of mustard from our sandwiches we just buy another. Our shit is so far from together but ain’t nothing gonna stop us. Also we just deleted your mom’s GDrive because we can.
—Google probably
They had a really amazing search algorithm that they used to make ad revenue and then made a bunch of stuff because the engineers were bored.
Google’s problem is they reward bringing new product to market, but they don’t reward steady stewardship or iteration to improve existing products. That’s why you see Google release multiple products that do the same thing.
In addition to 20% Time Fridays they should have had Patch Tuesday where everyone submits a bug fix or new feature for an existing product.
Eric Schmidt was amazing as CEO. Then he left and Page took over. He was okay, but nothing great. Then Pichai took over. He is an absolute douchenozzle and is basically there to just make as much money as possible all while trashing everything that made Google great. Google search sucks nowadays, YouTube is overrun with ads, and nothing interesting at all has happened with Android in a long time.
Seriously? I admit I use it, but how can you love it? I often feel violated using it. Google has its tendrils dug so deep into every aspect of it, I feel dirty using it.