Ever since Sundar Pichai took over as CEO, Google has just gotten boring as a company, overall, and has forgotten or discontinued its products more than actually innovate like they used to.
It’s actually bad news for me because I bought a bunch of movies living in the UK (moved to Canada now) that I can’t access through YouTube but can through Google Play movies.
Going through support is like dealing with monkeys. They have no idea what they’re doing.
Movies Anywhere is your friend here. Buy a movie from one store, watch it from any other store. Not sure how it works when one store shuts down, hopefully you keep it in all the other stores.
Whoa … seems so weird. I’ll buy a movie on sale to give it a go. Thanks!
It works with movies you already own, so there’s no need to buy more just to test it out! It’s still not as convenient as some other… less legal… options, but it’s a step in the right direction.
I swear this company used to have its shit together.
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.
20% has been dead for almost a decade…
And it shows
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
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.
I love Android. Google please, please don’t fuck this one up.
Stop it, don’t give Google ideas or they will turn to Android next lol
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.
I love it from a technical perspective from its runtime to its permissions model. I don’t specifically care for Google. I’m enthused from an OS design perspective.
Finally, I don’t need to disable this app anymore when I have a new phone
Have you met Google? The app will still be there for years to come. It will be broken, but it’ll never disappear.
Unfortunately I know them, I recently wiped a pixel 3 and I noticed that the latest ROM still has play music. The latest ROM update is from November 2021 and it still has play music. Almost one year after the complete shutdown and over three years after the deprecation they fucking continued to include play music in the system rom…
ADB is your friend. Uninstall any app you don’t need/want.
I actually had no idea this was an app or what it did lmao. Google has so many confusing things like this.
First Play Music, now Play Movies. Hopefully Play Books isn’t next.
Knowing Google I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they do remove Play Books and fuck over all the customers, just for that 1% increase in profits lol.
Honestly my preferred epub platform.
Shhhhh, I think maybe they’ve forgotten about it….
Jesus fucking Christ, what a clusterfuck.
I can’t wait to not be able to spend google play store credits on renting movies anymore, just like there’s no way to spend google play store credits on purchasing albums or songs 🙃
Actually a good thing though, it should all be merged into one.
It was, years ago. It’s part of YouTube’s rentals/purchase feature now.
Nothing of value was lost
Good riddance. Less bullshit to uninstall when I get a new phone.
This isn’t even talking about phones.
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.
People actually read the article?
[I’m the dumbass who 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?
I would expect YouTube.
Google has truly mastered the fine arts of wasting money
Google is the only brand I know of where people go out of their way to own the hardware but do everything in their power to avoid the software.
Wait, no. Razor… Razor exists. NO ONE’S MOUSE NEEDS A DAILY DRIVER UPDATE!
It’s not like that in all areas. It’s the exact opposite for their phones. Pixels are trash quality hardware with great software.
Google is just a massive disappointment in 2023…
I was one of the lucky ones with my 6, I will admit… but I’m not up for another round. I’ll be an Asus boy in two years if they’re still playing a good game, or maybe a Linux phone and keep my 6 as a backup for more proprietary crap if I’m really feeling frisky.
That doesn’t quite line up when you consider how popular it is to buy a Pixel just to flash GrapheneOS on it.
Fuck Razor mice. They can’t do a mouse wheel right without it slipping backwards when scrolling. Garbage.
Their earbuds are good tho. So far.
Whats a good alternative to Razor? The wheel is slipping on my DeathAdder.
Keychron, just go all in on that brand.
That’s the model that the mouse wheel kept slipping.
Anything really I’m using some brand that has a ship as a logo that I got for like $5 clearance from Walmart that’s been pretty good. Not super fancy but has all 5 buttons and a button for quick change of sensitivity (which I’ve never got used to, I grew up on Ball nice, I have to remind myself that I got side buttons).
Corsair
I got a basic 3-button black HP mouse that I’ve used for many years of continuous use and dropping and I’ve never had a problem
Logitech I guess. There is the mousereview subreddit if you want to research some alternatives. Don’t know if there is a Lemmy community equivalent.
I just tossed my fancy Logitech headset after only 3 years. My kid’s mouse was double clicking after less. And G Hub makes Razer’s software look like poetry.
I was a die hard Logitech fan since I was a kid. I bought shares.
Done with them.
Don’t think Razer software will be that much better. After trying razor I am now on a g502 x lightspeed. I really hope these new switches address the double-clicking issues for good.
Upvote cause you’re the only one who spelled Razer correctly
Don’t think Razer software will be that much better. After trying razor I am now on a g502 x lightspeed. I really hope these new switches address the double-clicking issues for good.
Lol the g502x lightspeed is the last piece of Logitech hardware I own. About half the time on wake it gets stuck at 0.5fps. The other day a software/firmware bug made it stop reporting clicks and I had to reboot my PC. It’s good hardware but something is very wrong with either the firmware or G-Hub.
Why is all gamer equipment garbage?
Ugh don’t tell me that. Knock on wood that mine is okay.
I can recommend Keychron M3, it’s really a steal for its price. Been using it since the release day for Mac, Windows and Linux and I had zero issues
I like Corsair products. My weighted mouse has been perfect for the last 4ish years for gaming.
Another one for the pile
Add it to the list https://killedbygoogle.com/
They’ve gotten to the point where new ventures are doomed before they start because no one can trust that the product they’re investing time and money in will be around in a year.
Doesn’t surprise me. They never even supported it with the Assistant / Google Home. There’s pretty much zero point in onboarding with any Google products anymore.
I got some Google home mini devices and now none of them work to do basically anything of value. Actually I shouldn’t say now, they stopped doing the basic functions I wanted them for around 2 years ago.
Telling it to play a show on TV doesnt work, which is essentially why I bought them. The most they can do now is basic on and off functions. They were constantly going off at random times when no one was talking. They have now become fancy looking paperweights.
I also have Google TV which is slowly becoming worse and worse. I recently bought my kids Rokus because they had all the same functions as Google but without the microphone remote. They were half the price and are working better than my Google TV.
