On Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:17:59 PM UTC-4, looselyhuman wrote: > > I wish I thought this was just a dumb move, but it feels more like I'm > being force-fed Chrome. I use Chrome occassionally but it's not as > ergonomically pleasing to me as IE and I refuse to be manipulated into > using it as my primary. Don't be evil? No more evil than MS is apparently > the new goal. I guess since I prefer IE to Chrome I can't complain about > MS-type behavior, but I expect more from Google, which provides the only > set of online services to which I'm loyal. Google, please don't screw that > up over these latter-day browser wars.
Precisely! Google informs us that it is "winding down" iGoogle while helpfully telling us we can continue to enjoy the features and benefits we enjoy and rely on by switching to Google Chrome (a product many of us have specifically chosen not to make our routine browser b/c we find it to be less reliable/valuable than competing browsers). This gambit suggests that Google is far less concerned with the "eroding" need for iGoogle than it is in pushing people to its Chrome browser. <http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-kill-the-igoogle-webportal.html>(Not that we should not grateful to Google for unshackling us from technologies the obsolescence of which we are too slow to recognize...) In its message to iGoogle users, Google cites no market analysis or usage data, nor offers any falsifiable claim to support this decision, just a bald assertion that there is no longer any need for something like iGoogle. (Raising the question of why then they rush to reassure us that "If you’re a fan of <http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-kill-the-igoogle-webportal.html>Google Chrome <http://www.google.com/chrome>, the Chrome Web Store<http://chrome.google.com/webstore>provides a similar range of options like productivity tools <http://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/7-productivity> and applications to check the weather<http://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/65-weather-forecasts>. In addition, just like iGoogle, you can personalize Chrome<http://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes>with a theme." Is the need for "something like iGoogle" eroded or is it not?) Google's disembodied, passive voice rationale is akin to your boss saying "Your services are no longer needed" with no further ado...Or an airline trying to get away with announcing: "Given all the changes in the technology of travel, the need for something like legroom has eroded"...) W<http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-kill-the-igoogle-webportal.html>e are all highly amused by Google's circular and self-serving rationale that the with the advent of "modern apps that run on platforms like *Chrome* and*Android * [!] the need for something like iGoogle has eroded." (Oh, yeah...that's clear enough...?) This wordsalad of non sequiturs is just the kind of incoherent corporate-doublespeak that we expect from "traditional" companies that lack a snappy and comforting mission like "don't be evil". Google, I ask is you: Is your "mission" now merely an advertising slogan?<http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-kill-the-igoogle-webportal.html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/Google-Gadgets-API/-/CLcsMN-MjKIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
