In the last Google I / O of May 2016, the giant Google announced the arrival of a new instant messaging application conceived especially as a tool that could be very useful for team and collaborative work. We talk about Google Spaces, a service whose death has already been announced, and that is not even one year old of life.
The idea raised with Google Spaces was not bad at all, in my judgement. The basic idea was that users could create private chats or "spaces" based on topics that interest all members of this space, and there to add content from different applications such as YouTube or Google's own searches. As I said, this concept could be useful for collaborative work, but the truth is that it fell very short.
In addition, the launch was hugely confusing, also coinciding with the announcement of two other messaging applications, Allo, which could soon grow with a web version for computers, and Duo. Thus, this "hodgepodge" of messaging apps had to find a place in a sector that was already saturated and, above all, dominated by a couple of "big ones." The result is that the first victim, Google Spaces, has already fallen.
If you are a Google Spaces user, or at least you have it installed and forgotten as is quite likely, if you open the application you will see that a message appears warning you that the service will be closed.
In a post published by Google, the company points out that As of next March 3, the Google Spaces application will only allow viewing and reading the content, but do not submit anything new. So until on April 17, when his "homicide" will take place.
What do you think of the disappearance of Google Spaces? What did Google want with this app? Do you think his disappearance was already "sung"?
