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Google will never figure out how to do social apps well. They have failed repeatedly to make anything resembling a good social platform, and the one that came anywhere close (Google Chat), they killed and replaced with a succession of moribund, inferior replacements which are all being killed off in succession. (Hangouts is dead within a year, supposedly; Allo and Duo are not doing well either, and there's a totally new one coming.)

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It's funny how their replacement are consistently worse than what they replaced. You mentioned Google Chat, which was pretty great, followed by Hangouts which I'd still very good (arguably the best one out there that still exists), but succeeded by something that had no redeeming qualities at all.

Then we have Picasa which was succeeded by Photos. I like to be able to sort my photos, thanks.

Google Plus still doesn't have a public API.

Do you remember when it was possible to compile an Android application in seconds? Before you had to spend 30 seconds for Gradle to do absolutely nothing?

And Google reader was replaced by, well whatever they want you to use instead is not something I want to use.

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