Considering how much Microsoft is betting on Game Pass, time will tell if Google’s decision to end its cloud streaming service was a missed opportunity or a bullet dodged. The only thing customers received was a $100 pity prize in the form of Google Store or Google Fi credit. In September, The Mountain View tech giant told its users that it was killing off the Gmail Basic HTML view on both desktop and mobile. The move wasn’t popular among users, but other streaming services saw it as a big success. Omegle was one of those, a free app where users could anonymously video chat with each other.

Source: The Nation December 28, 2023 17:36 UTC