<story><title>Moving on from Picasa</title><url>http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>al_biglan</author><text>Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application&amp;#x2F;product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear.  I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected.  With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning.  (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official Blog was a big clue...)&lt;p&gt;All that said... just as I was getting used to Wave... poof&lt;p&gt;Just as I was getting used to GOOG-411... poof&lt;p&gt;Google Talk...&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t mind the innovation, but it seems that rather than releasing new versions of existing products to introduce new features and help folks migrate, you get an entire new product to learn&amp;#x2F;adopt.  I can&amp;#x27;t believe I&amp;#x27;m saying this but... I prefer Microsoft&amp;#x27;s approach to improving their product lines. (sigh)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Picasa web albums has hardly disappeared.  It was replaced by Google Photos (then Google+ photos) a couple years ago.  They left the old interface around for &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt; to allow people to transition over at their own pace, you can&amp;#x27;t really expect a better migration path than that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Moving on from Picasa</title><url>http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>al_biglan</author><text>Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application&amp;#x2F;product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear.  I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected.  With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning.  (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official Blog was a big clue...)&lt;p&gt;All that said... just as I was getting used to Wave... poof&lt;p&gt;Just as I was getting used to GOOG-411... poof&lt;p&gt;Google Talk...&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t mind the innovation, but it seems that rather than releasing new versions of existing products to introduce new features and help folks migrate, you get an entire new product to learn&amp;#x2F;adopt.  I can&amp;#x27;t believe I&amp;#x27;m saying this but... I prefer Microsoft&amp;#x27;s approach to improving their product lines. (sigh)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sk8ingdom</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still upset about Google Reader...</text></comment>