• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Webp

    Developed by google, for google products.

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

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        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 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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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              1 year ago

              Comparing any of the services or applications that Google has created to a file format is not a fair comparison at all.