As someone who occasionally has to use google crap, I find these useful. They’ve killed 90% of the stuff I found useful, and I migrated off most of the remaining stuff voluntarily.

I assume the few absolutely critical things I rely on them for will be discontinued at some point, and this gives me an idea of what’s likely to be on the chopping block.

However, the list is missing one big item: Cheap storage for universities. That caused me all sorts of headaches a few months back.

Of course it is. It is a warning that people shouldn't take Google seriously anymore and not rely, let alone depend on it for their professional work.

A good example of overuse of the word "meme". And yes, it's obviously useful to remind people that Google is risky to deal with.

> I find it mainly negative and seems like a cheap source for content

Don't you mean a source of discontent instead?

Yeah. There was some legitimate criticism at the beginning with things like Reader, but it has devolved into bad faith arguments like renaming a product being killing the original, merging products being killing one, migrating to new solutions on a pre-agreed deprecation timeline being killing… all companies do all of these things and it’s not news.