Google is the only brand I know of where people go out of their way to own the hardware but do everything in their power to avoid the software.

Wait, no. Razor... Razor exists. NO ONE'S MOUSE NEEDS A DAILY DRIVER UPDATE!

Did they not turn this into Google TV already? Not to be confused with Google TV, YouTube TV, Android TV or the old Google TV

I swear this company used to have its shit together.

The downside of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is that you end up having to clean up a whole lot of shit of the floor.

I honestly didn't know they still had Google Play Movies and TV still, I'd assumed they'd folded it completely into the YouTube movies brand already.

As a Google Play Music user, I'm retroactively angry. I would've loved that many years of GPM while they worked a couple (not enough) of the kinks out of YTM. And I wish I still had access to Google's music store, since Amazon doesn't sell in Canada and I hate having to install a desktop application to shop at Apple.

Ever since Sundar Pichai took over as CEO, Google has just gotten boring as a company, overall, and has forgotten or discontinued its products more than actually innovate like they used to.

I have no freaking idea what the hell Google is doing detaching all these apps then being extra aggressive at getting me to use it.

If I want a song, am I doing YouTube, YouTube Music, or Google Music?

Podcasts are even worst, because theres Google Podcasts too.

Google has truly mastered the fine arts of wasting money

First Play Music, now Play Movies. Hopefully Play Books isn't next.

Jesus fucking Christ, what a clusterfuck.

I can't wait to not be able to spend google play store credits on renting movies anymore, just like there's no way to spend google play store credits on purchasing albums or songs 🙃

I'm surprised Sundar isn't on the hot seat at this point.

People are gonna be like "oh well he presided over X revenue growth and that's all investors care about". Investors also care about future returns.

Under Sundar, Google has more or less completely failed to diversify. They've had the advantage on several products, only for them to dick around while their competitors established (or re-established) dominance. The areas where they have market dominance went from "we have the far superior product" to "this Lowkey sucks, but I can't think of anything better".

As far as I'm concerned Sundar is Google's Sculley. Google will go for a long time under its own momentum, but eventually the wheels will come off.

Meanwhile Nadella is getting paid a quarter as much.

Add it to the list https://killedbygoogle.com/

Another one for the pile

Finally, I don't need to disable this app anymore when I have a new phone

So does this mean those of us who have bought content through Play Movies will lose access to those?

Doesn't surprise me. They never even supported it with the Assistant / Google Home. There's pretty much zero point in onboarding with any Google products anymore.

Good riddance. Less bullshit to uninstall when I get a new phone.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On third-party smart TVs (this is a different category than today's Android TV announcement) the app was killed in 2021.

How any normal person is supposed to understand that pile of Google media brands, and how it works across phones, the web, and various smart TV OSes, is beyond me.

The idea back in the 2010s was to compete with the digital media revolution Apple created with iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone.

Most of the media stores started in the Android Market but then pivoted to a more Google-wide offering with the launch of Google Play branding in 2012.

Nothing at Google is ever stable, though, and the company's other media stakeholders sought to pick apart what the Android Team had built.

All the apps will be dead in October, and presumably, that means the now-useless store will be booted from the web interface as well.

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It's actually bad news for me because I bought a bunch of movies living in the UK (moved to Canada now) that I can't access through YouTube but can through Google Play movies.

Going through support is like dealing with monkeys. They have no idea what they're doing.

I actually had no idea this was an app or what it did lmao. Google has so many confusing things like this.

Actually a good thing though, it should all be merged into one.