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 π
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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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.
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!
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.
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
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...
That doesn't quite line up when you consider how popular it is to buy a Pixel just to flash GrapheneOS on it.
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.
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.
βGoogle probably
The downside of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is that you end up having to clean up a whole lot of shit of the floor.
And every time you do, the next shit has a harder time sticking.
Stadia was doomed from the start because nobody was willing to commit to it in fear of Google killing it, and that meant it wouldn't get enough users and would get killed.
I honestly didn't know they still had Google Play Movies and TV still, I'd assumed they'd folded it completely into the YouTube movies brand already.
As a Google Play Music user, I'm retroactively angry. I would've loved that many years of GPM while they worked a couple (not enough) of the kinks out of YTM. And I wish I still had access to Google's music store, since Amazon doesn't sell in Canada and I hate having to install a desktop application to shop at Apple.
What happens to my films?
So does this mean those of us who have bought content through Play Movies will lose access to those?
No they are allowing you to view them in YouTube and the Google TV library section of the app
Yeah, but the movies I purchased in HD are now only accessible in 480p. So technically available but not really.
On Youtube they are 480p. On Google TV they appear to be HD and allow downloading.
Still shitty as you have to use their app, a chromecast or google TV smart TV.
First Play Music, now Play Movies. Hopefully Play Books isn't next.
Honestly my preferred epub platform.
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.
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...
Good riddance. Less bullshit to uninstall when I get a new phone.
This isn't even talking about phones.
Google has truly mastered the fine arts of wasting money