Now, Inbox, Reader and Play Music. Not that it was available in my country, but I think Google fibre was around the same time. I guess you could throw Google Chrome pulling internet standards forward rather than regressing them, into that box too.

Google was really on to a run of genuine winners at that point, weren’t they? It’s kinda a shame to see that all of the replacements really still are several steps behind what we had.

I know now that this trajectory almost seems inevitable for any big tech company now, but imagine where we would be now if Google had kept making genuinely good products and improvements.