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Sean Hollister
I feel for the Google employee who torpedoed its Windows desktop app growth.

If you installed the new Google app for Windows, Google’s now telling you to remove it! To “keep receiving Google app updates,” you have to uninstall and reinstall from scratch. I wonder how many will skip the second step... particularly since it won’t uninstall until you dismiss this message and close the app.

“Keep receiving Google app updates”
“Keep receiving Google app updates”
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