Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut down products with quarterly “spring cleanings,” but now, it just does so whenever it’s time for another product to be put out to pasture… More here.

Apple Notes, Journal, iMessage, Safari etc etc. I fully expect to use all of these for many years. We don’t think about this enough, but Google’s habit of killing off services is a massive turn off for many.

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