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[–] 156 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Webp

Developed by google, for google products.

Not guaranteed to work with google products (looking at you google voice.)

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    Probably because nobody uses it.

    The whole "Google will kill it" meme is a self fulfilling prophecy.

    Google creates thing.

    Everyone thinks Google will kill that thing, so nobody uses it.

    Google kills the thing because nobody uses it.

    And the cycle continues.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Dunno about "nobody." Tons of sites use it. Hell, Telegram uses it for stickers exclusively. We use it everywhere on my job's website

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which is probably why webp still exists.

    Most of the other things killed by Google follow this trend. Stadia is a glowing example of this self fulfilling prophecy.

    Though, in the case of stadia, IMO, they should have probably worked harder to let people know that as long as you have a Google login and something to play with, you could have tried it without buying anything. There were a number of trials on the platform that were free to play. Since people didn't generally know that, a lot were relying on reviewers to form an opinion, and most of the reviews were early access and wrought with issues that were quickly fixed.

    I miss stadia.

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