I know people love to complain about Google's track record of shutting things down, but for me this is the one that made me say "I'll never use anything new from Google for anything important. Never. Anything." The pushed this thing SO hard for a couple of years, and now it's just gone. I feel like I'd be a fool to use anything more than search and Gmail at this point. I've heard good things about GCP but there's no way anyone will convince me that'll be around in 5 years (though if it is I might be convinced). All those chat/video apps, no way I'm even going to bother with checking them out. And so on. Google+ seemed like THE most important thing at Google, tied into everything, even required for a while, and it's gone now, or maybe rebranded into that thing they just announced earlier this week?<p>TechCrunch has a nice Google+ timeline:
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/looking-back-at-google/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/looking-back-at-google/</a>