I hope you like motion control because it ain't going nowhere. Microsoft just announced its new Kinect and though it's not literally wired into the Xbox One, it'll be coming with every One sold. But this time, Kinect is less about about gaming, and more about media than ever.
I hate to say it (ok, only KIND OF hate to say it) but you see wrong. iOS has flaws, but Apple is throwing its support behind it. Google+ has flaws, and Google is throwing its support behind it. Voice has flaws, and Google pokes at it now and then and keeps it from exploding. Just like Reader, Voice is sitting in the…
No no no no no. It doesn't work with some lame social network, Google+, so Google says it must die. I'm just predicting it.
That's the thing though: it isn't going to be updated with new awesome features like that. Never. And it IS going to die, eventually. We just all better hope that some of its features are wrapped in directly to a service Google actually cares about by the time that happens. And right now, it's building that kind of…
That's exactly what I'm taking about though; you have to download a third party app to emulate a phone! It's ridiculous!
You can have all the ideas in the world on how to improve it, but the problem is that it's never going to improve. Google has made it pretty clear that the FURTHEST they'll go to "support" voice is to graft it onto other services.
People have said the same thing about Google Reader, but I'm willing to bet there aren't nearly enough people for that to be enticing.
Guys, I love love love my Google Voice account too. But I am 100% in favor of killing it to death if there's a chance its best parts can rise from the ashes like a phoenix.
Even if it's not quite as amazing as it could be, Google Voice does some wonderful things. That's what makes it hard to admit the truth: It's time for Google Voice to die.
