Google Keep Labelled "Delete"

judgecorp writes "The Google Keep note-keeping app has had a frosty reception. Analysts including Gartner have said its functionality is laughable compared to that of the rival Evernote (saying "it's like saying MSFT Paint is a threat to Photoshop") and other users have rejected it on the grounds that after the death sentence on Reader, Google can't be trusted not to pull the plug on a service which people have come to rely on."

Comments

delete?

[jaymz666]

Maybe an extra l there?

My first thought was "how can I trust them with this when they just killed reader?"

Re:delete?

[ALeader71]

Agreed. If this doesn't take off, it may be a short lived service. I'll stick with Evernote.

Re:delete?

[jaymz666]

Exactly, I will stick with the company that has their whole business model based in note taking and similar services.

Re:delete?

[Anonymous Coward]

Google Keep does not affect your data even if Google would clean it off.

Why? Because Google Keep is tied to Google Drive where it store notes. And they are just text, image and sound files. Nothing radical would not happen if you couldn't use Google Keep anymore.

Google Reader does not kill RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers out there. Now it only demands that you need to sync readed/unreaded in different way but all the RSS feeds can be imported and exported to almost any reader. There is no such problem with Google Reader cleaned off.

Media is talking about Google Reader as it kills RSS from WWW.

Re:delete?

[QAPete]

Exactly. First iGoogle, then Reader, two user-friendly, very efficient ways of getting stuff I want to see in front of my beady eyes. Google kills them both, and is constantly begging / pushing me to use Google +, which I have absolutely no wish to use. Both iGoogle and Reader were great examples of things Google did very well. Now they are putting their resources into things that OTHER companies do very well, like Google + and Google Keep.

I have ties to Gmail I need for now, but beyond that I'm not getting involved in Google anything.

Re:delete?

[gmuslera]

Killing Reader didn't kill RSS. But killed all the ecosystem around it, both from apps and for the way you used it. Why i should do an alternative app that makes use of Keep if they could end it tomorrow? Why i use it to store notes if they could not be there tomorrow, and all that that was put there because that particular way of access is not there anymore?

In any case, either with Drive or Takeout, you don't lose your data, but it lose a part of its value without the "right" way to access it, all of it. A bit more "bening" shutdown was Wave, that if well was discontinued but open sourced the server so you can continue using it in the same way elsewhere.

Re:delete?

[larry bagina]

Reader didn't kill RSS but it killed and stifled development of other RSS readers over the past 7 years.

I thought features were passe?

[timeOday]

I am starting to feel like a relic, because in my world, running a buch of feature-rich applications on a powerful computer with a large screen still seems like a great thing to do most of the time. All I see on the web is how "most people" don't use the full power of Word/Powerpoint/Outlook, therefore it should be removed. And then Microsoft comes out with Metro just to confirm my fears.

It's nice to see an application (yeah, I typed out the whole word!) slammed for being too simplistic.

Re:I thought features were passe?

[Pope]

No, Microsoft came out with Metro because they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

How can you trust google not to delete it

[Anonymous Coward]

Said everyone with a gmail account. Honestly, even if they do you will still have a copy of your data synced on your devices and the precedent is that you'll be able to get your data anyway.

I am Jack's total lack of surprise...

[Assmasher]

"Google can't be trusted not to pull the plug on a service which people have come to rely on" - They've just now realized this? LOL.

Most people on /. have known this for years.

Google knows what it's doing when it comes to search (including maps), and (after several years) Android - everything else is stuff built/rolled out/supported by disparate uncoordinated groups with no coherent strategy or purpose beyond "hey, this looks like something the PR guys would like."

Re:I am Jack's total lack of surprise...

[Jahava]

Google knows what it's doing when it comes to search (including maps), and (after several years) Android - everything else is stuff built/rolled out/supported by disparate uncoordinated groups with no coherent strategy or purpose beyond "hey, this looks like something the PR guys would like."

What a stupid statement. "They only knew what they were doing those times they did well." Most of their projects, with the exception of search, started out as disparate uncoordinated groups with no coherent strategy.

"Beta" means something different to Google.

[mistapotta]

As I remind my students, "Beta" to Google means they haven't figured out how to profit on it. If they can find a way to profit on it, it then becomes one of their many appliances. If they can't, it gets killed. Clearly, Google didn't have a way to profit on Reader, as they couldn't on Wave, as they couldn't on Health. If they can find a way to profit from Keep, it'll keep. Otherwise it'll be gone like the rest.

A better comparison

[SuperKendall]

Google Reader: Survived eight years DESPITE BEING FREE

Evernote: Has only five eight years history BUT CHARGES MONEY FOR APPS AND SERVICES.

Google Keep: ALSO FREE JUST LIKE READER

Huh, I wonder which one may be around after eight more years - the one that pays for it's own existence or the one that's like a pony in the stables of a rich guy with a bad gambling problem?.

Re:Oh shit!!!

[ozmanjusri]

What Microsoft gets,

Yep, Microsoft products and their Kin will always play for sure!

Re:No?

[AmiMoJo]

They are the new and improved Netcraft. If Gartner confirms it you can be sure it isn't happening.

Seriously, their entire business is providing "intelligence" that contradicts reality for company that find the facts inconvenient.

Re:Oh shit!!!

[hairyfeet]

Same damned thing happened with MSFT, they USED to put out relatively consistent products, now its just rehashing what Apple does even when it makes no damned sense, like putting an iPad style UI on a desktop which even Apple doesn't do.

I personally call this "the curse of PPT math" as that is what seems to be the culprit, a company comes along, builds a base, people start becoming loyal to the product....then here come the beancounters. They start cranking out PPTs and Excel sheets and saying things like "Well if you look at the stock price its obvious we need to do" or "If you look at our competitor's quarterly earnings and stock price then its obvious we need to do"...fuck you you beancounting little shits, unless you are a financial services company on K street you should NOT be focused on pleasing fucking Wall Street, you should be focused on pleasing YOUR CUSTOMERS and making top notch products. do THAT and watch your company grow, don't? You become another risk averse money hungry dinosaur ripe for getting your throat cut by a new company that focuses on listening to the customer instead of Wall Street.