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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably because nobody uses it.

The whole "Google will kill it" meme is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Google creates thing.

Everyone thinks Google will kill that thing, so nobody uses it.

Google kills the thing because nobody uses it.

And the cycle continues.

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dunno about "nobody." Tons of sites use it. Hell, Telegram uses it for stickers exclusively. We use it everywhere on my job's website

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is probably why webp still exists.

Most of the other things killed by Google follow this trend. Stadia is a glowing example of this self fulfilling prophecy.

Though, in the case of stadia, IMO, they should have probably worked harder to let people know that as long as you have a Google login and something to play with, you could have tried it without buying anything. There were a number of trials on the platform that were free to play. Since people didn't generally know that, a lot were relying on reviewers to form an opinion, and most of the reviews were early access and wrought with issues that were quickly fixed.

I miss stadia.

[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Comparing any of the services or applications that Google has created to a file format is not a fair comparison at all.