Re: Didn't think it through
I concur. Pretty much the same for all the things Google abandons. Two years ago they abandoned the Google Home page because they got bored. PLENTY of people were upset and the forums reflected that. Why not just sell the IP to a company that COULD be bothered and wanted to support the page and the widgets?
I ended up going with IGHOME, an independent company that reinvented the page and for the most part it has a lot of the look and feel and most of the widget content. But sheesh, I'll bet Google shareholders would have been happy if Google had just sold the page and earned a couple of dollars for it rather than tossing it in the rubbish. I'll bet the peeps that made their own version would have been happy to have saved all the coding work and just bought the site as is and continued to support and improve from there.
At least I had zero dollars invested. I feel bad for the Revolv hardware owners with expensive door stops.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
