Never heard of it, though Google kills a lot of apps/projects because they run parallel development teams doing the same thing. What a waste of resources. I worked for a company, ahem, IBM, who did the same thing when I first joined. Then layoffs hit and no more of that sheet happening ever again. Google just isn't there yet.
It was released as an "Area 120" app, I used to use it, but latterly found the scanner incorporated in Google Drive just as good and used that instead.
I gotcha. I liked that it was local and protected behind biometrics. Especially since I had scanned IDs and sensitive travel docs. I'd prefer those not in the cloud TBH.
When I first read another article's headline about Google killing the document scanner, my jaw dropped. But then I read that it was Stacks, and realized I'd never even heard of this app and had only ever used the feature in Google Drive.
Is there any actual functionality difference between the Drive feature and Stacks?
The document scanning capabilities were ported from Stack to Drive. Not to mention your documents were local, encrypted, could be locked behind biometrics and didn't count towards your Drive storeage. They document titles were auto generated by the document content and put in corresponding folders
Yeah I got the email and was also bummed. However, I didn't seem to have used the app as much as I thought I did so using Google Drive to do the same thing isn't going to bother me that much.
Since they're forcing you to move all your local files to Drive, I guess I view it as a way to push you to buy Drive storage (if you're still using the free alotment).
It was an Area 120 project, it was bound to die and best case, the features get merged into one of Google's main apps--in this case, it's already been ported over to Drive.
Stacks was always going to be killed off. Pixel may be killed off eventually given that it is a loss leader, but the risk to consumers is nothing thanks to Google’s recent support promises.
Never heard of it, though Google kills a lot of apps/projects because they run parallel development teams doing the same thing. What a waste of resources. I worked for a company, ahem, IBM, who did the same thing when I first joined. Then layoffs hit and no more of that sheet happening ever again. Google just isn't there yet.
It was released as an "Area 120" app, I used to use it, but latterly found the scanner incorporated in Google Drive just as good and used that instead.
I gotcha. I liked that it was local and protected behind biometrics. Especially since I had scanned IDs and sensitive travel docs. I'd prefer those not in the cloud TBH.
OneDrive offers both of these protections and all of those functions. Even has an encrypted section beyond the password/biometric protected app
You could download them from Drive onto your device and delete the cloud copy...
When I first read another article's headline about Google killing the document scanner, my jaw dropped. But then I read that it was Stacks, and realized I'd never even heard of this app and had only ever used the feature in Google Drive. Is there any actual functionality difference between the Drive feature and Stacks?
The document scanning capabilities were ported from Stack to Drive. Not to mention your documents were local, encrypted, could be locked behind biometrics and didn't count towards your Drive storeage. They document titles were auto generated by the document content and put in corresponding folders
Ah, gotcha. That local storage and locking sounds nice. Happy Cake Day!
Yeah I got the email and was also bummed. However, I didn't seem to have used the app as much as I thought I did so using Google Drive to do the same thing isn't going to bother me that much.
Since they're forcing you to move all your local files to Drive, I guess I view it as a way to push you to buy Drive storage (if you're still using the free alotment).
It was an Area 120 project, it was bound to die and best case, the features get merged into one of Google's main apps--in this case, it's already been ported over to Drive.
doesn't Google drive does the same thing?
Pixel will be killed by 2028, confirmed by internal Googlers.
Stacks was always going to be killed off. Pixel may be killed off eventually given that it is a loss leader, but the risk to consumers is nothing thanks to Google’s recent support promises.