Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps Google has decided to shut down the Chrome Web Store payments API permanently after what was supposed to be a temporary closure at the start of the year. In January, the internet advertising biz halted the publication of Chrome apps, extensions, and themes in the Chrome Web Store that were either paid-for or took in-app …
"Today, there is a thriving ecosystem of payment providers offering a far more diverse set of features than a single provider could hope to. "
Bollocks. You could say the same about the android app store, but you still force users to use your own payment system.
Chrome apps were a horrible back anyway. They were a way to get around the shortcomings of the ChromeOS "everything runs in a browser" premise.
The security baked into ChromeOS is good. If they actually allow sandboxes apps to run, and ditch the browser-centric UI, then coupled with the already existing Android integration (windowized android apps) , they'd be onto a winner.
As it stands, OS configuration, even the SSH terminal are shoehorned into browser tabs. The obvious problems with that exist, not to mention the completely different UI for browser Vs android (and it's not due to touchscreen emulation.. The Android mouse interface does that well)
I wonder if we will see an announcement in a few years time that Alphabet is discontinuing Google because they will have developed a more efficient (profitable) advertising mechanism. The corporate policy seem to be to release an app (e.g. Google), figure out the best way to extract everyone's data and profit from it, before moving on a a more profitable theft.
Picks up pen, carefully scrawls, “Never use a Google service for something that matters for more than a week or so”. Underlines. Blots, ink dry. Puts it in a 4 foot wide picture frame painted nuclear pink, attaches a long life battery to the “Important - take note and heed” klaxon, switches it on and hangs it on the wall.
Oh there doesn’t appear to be room. The wall is chock full of other 4 foot wide nuclear pink picture frames with exactly the same memo already on display.
Step by step I've been moving everything possible out of Google. My email is hosted by my Web host. Contacts and calendar are in Nextcloud. I simply aren't prepared to risk anything to Google 's "here today, gone tomorrow" business practices.
Now is there some way to get them to kill off the truly excreble Google Docs?
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