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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“Made space for everyone. Nobody showed up. Rest easy, little app.”
Google Spaces was a mobile app for group discussions and messaging, launched May 16, 2016 on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. The idea was simple and appealing: create a space, invite your friends, and share videos, images, text, and other media in one cozy spot. It was meant to go toe-to-toe with Slack, with Chrome, Google Search, and YouTube built right in so you could pull in content without ever leaving the conver
The app was discontinued on April 17, 2017, barely a year after it arrived. Its name found a strange second life: Google later revived the Spaces brand for a feature in Google Chat, formerly known as Rooms. A quiet ending, but at least the name got to stick around.
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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
“The last Lumia: a quiet business phone that closed the book with its sleeves rolled up.”