When Google announces the axing of one of their service, it is often wrapped in a phrase of “to focus on the core user experience.” WTF is that? It sounds like the end of a movie where the person hearing the line does not get what they sought…
This was originally published on Storify at https://storify.com/cogdog/google-closing-lines but because they are trashing their web site in May 2018, I have liberated my content here using the Storify Link Extractor tool.
This all started when Martin Hawksey noted that Google announced they were going to pull the plug on hosting app sites on Google Drive, something a few of Martin's genius projects rested upon (one of which is pretty important to my core user experience, the auto updated twitter archive)…
Not surprised but very disappointing … Google Apps Developer Blog: Deprecating web hosting support in Google Drive http://t.co/9LAQvTPV5r
— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) September 1, 2015
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2015/08/deprecating-web-hosting-support-in.html
WTF?
Who writes something like "In the time since we launched web hosting in Drive, a wide variety of public web content hosting services have emerged. After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue this feature and focus on our core user experience."
So I wondered if this was how famous movies ended…
Here's looking at your core user experience, kid #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
Technically, this was not the closing line of Casablanca (that would have been "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful core user experience." So I used a Google service called "Search" (I sure hope that remains a core user experience) to find a resource….
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/50-best-final-lines-in-movies
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about your core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
Core user experience? Where we are going we won't need core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
This is Ripley, last known survivor of the core user experience, signing off #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
You maniacs! You blew core user experience up! God damn you all to hell! #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend's core user experience for dinner #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
Yo Adrian. Core user experience, core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
And now you know the rest of the core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Lisa Minogue-White (@lisaMinogueW) September 1, 2015
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Lisa Minogue-White (@lisaMinogueW) September 1, 2015
You know something, Utivitch? This just might be my core user experience. #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
Core user experience? Where we are going, we don't need a core user experience #GoogleClosingLines
— Lisa Minogue-White (@lisaMinogueW) September 1, 2015
Some men get the world. Others get ex-hooke s and a core user experience to Arizona #GoogleClosingLines
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) September 1, 2015
Mama always said life was like a core user experience. You never know what you're gonna get #GoogleClosingLines
— Lisa Minogue-White (@lisaMinogueW) September 1, 2015
60% of the time, this core user experience works every time #GoogleClosingLines
— Lisa Minogue-White (@lisaMinogueW) September 1, 2015
Hey, Google has only swept up 70 apps into the Core User Experience dung pile… your favorite tool may likely end up on the chopping block (Here's looking at you, Google+).
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html