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I love pixel phones but I still buy iPhones because I know nothing ever changes in the Apple world, and if it does it’s slow.

Google makes amazing things and just takes them away so what’s the point of being excited anymore.

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That’s what I mean, is google is hostile to its users by canceling features people use all the time. It’s just hard to feel invested in anything they do besides like YouTube and search

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It makes sense its not nearly as polished as other pixel camera features

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Then… polish it? By your standards, should we ditch Lemmy because Reddit is more polished?

Or give it an “Experimental” warning so that users don’t have high expectations.

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What’s the point of keeping a feature as experimental for over 5 years? It was more relevant when Daydream and Cardboard were a thing and I have not heard one single person mention this feature as a plus point for buying a Pixel. Nobody cares about it now and the feature works like ass in the modern day.

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What’s the point of keeping a feature as experimental for over 5 years?

Why not? Elon’s Full Self Driving does not seem to be leaving Beta (more like Alpha) anytime soon, either. It’s fine as long as it’s a marginal feature that isn’t heavily marketed and does not take up much space – in which case they should move it to a separate app and release it without fanfare on GitHub (like they did with Web Environment Integrity) and include a link for people looking for the deprecated feature.

Edit: The Wi-Fi I just posted this from says “Experimental” on its welcome page, and it’s been functioning flawlessly for the past 5+ years, woth double the range it’s supposed to cover.

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It still works well enough though?

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Every time I hear about Google killing a feature, it’s the first time hearing about the feature. So it makes sense to me.

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Stupid Google, this was a great camera feature. I use it all the time.

Don’t forget guys, Google My Maps is kept alive by one single Google employee. When he leaves the company, they’ll kill the feature for sure.

It wouldn’t surprise me if there was one single engineer that kept Photo Spheres alive.

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Don’t forget guys, Google My Maps is kept alive by one single Google employee. When he leaves the company, they’ll kill the feature for sure.

Source?

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I can’t find the name, but he used to reply to people on the support forum. I can’t even find the support forum now… They also killed the Android app in 2021.

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I was ready to ask what the fuck are you on, until I re-read and spotted you talked about “Google my maps” and not “Google Maps”.

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Fucking Google…

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