This would be a great moment for The Onion to run a headline like "Google plans to sunset Gmail, migrate users to YouTube Music."

Another one bites the dust.

Dear Google.

YouTube Music is shit. Stop trying to combine your other services into YouTube music.

Google Play Music was good. Google Podcasts was... not awful

YouTube Music is the worst of both services.

Just stop

This is why Google will forever be behind Apple. Any app that can't be monetised gets killed. Why give Android users a stable ecosystem after all? Fuck the users. Google fucking sucks.

Killing google play music didn't make me switch to youtube music, same here

Good news: you never needed Google Podcasts to begin with. Antenna Pod is a Free Open Source app that won't track your every move and just works.

Why is Google trying to follow the model of Spotify even though the model is not really successful? I hate when browsing my music in Spotify some podcast pops up. I just want to listen to my music, dammit!

Google Play Music users: "First 600th time?"

Do they have a script that they must follow? Why every single time they need to kill a product BEFORE having a fucking replacement???

Why they couldn't implement podcasts in yt music and then kill Google podcasts?

Why. Every. Single. Time. They need to kill a product BEFORE the replacement is ready?????????????

I'm guessing right now every dev with a podcasting app on the play store is popping champagne from the huge influx of Google podcasts refugees

At this point it's on you if you put any faith in any Google product aside from Search/YT/Adtech to last longer than a couple of years.

Oh Google.

They kicked everyone off Google Music to go to YT Music and Google Podcasts. Now they’re killing Google Podcasts and telling people to go to YT Music.

If YT Music wasn’t linked with my YouTube Premium subscription, I would never use it.

"what if we made it so everybody had to pay to turn off their screens even if there was no video or music!"

Fortunately when they killed the podcasts out of Google Play Music I switched to Podcast Addict and never looked back.

I honestly feel bad for the guys assigned to work on this dead-end project.

And considering the buggy, infuriating mess that YTM is and that team is being rewarded with expanded scope, I wonder what dirt they have on Sundar.

Fuck! I liked Google podcasts due to the android auto integration! I am not willing to install yt music on my phone.

Google is now my least favorite company.

I'm totally on board them getting investigated for antitrust and monopolistic practices. Google has really turned to shit the last 4-5 years.

Well fuck me, why? Why oh why? It's such a clean and simple app, no weird shit and of course it gets axed. I think I may just stop listening to podcasts then, much easier than switching to an app I have no interest in.

That sucks, it's been my only podcast app for many years.

I will never switch to YouTube music. Guess I'll have to leave another google service.

Edit: Moved to antennapod in about 10 minutes, bye google podcasts 😂

Just use a good podcast app like Pocket Casts. It’s the king on iOS at least, so I assume it’s good on Android as well. I never understood why people keep using these shitty Google apps that always get abandoned.

This is why I'll never get invested in Google again. I'm working on trying to move everything I can out.

Edit: Spelling

I still have Google Listen on my first Android phone. Maybe I can go back...

YT music isn't even available in my region, these fucks.