‘The impact to thousands of companies across industries will be huge’: Google Earth Pro for desktop is being discontinued, and some users are furious
- Google is discontinuing the desktop version of Google Earth Pro
- The web and mobile versions of the app will continue to be available
- You have until June 25 2027 to download the desktop edition
When it comes to abandoning and discontinuing its own products, Google doesn’t have a particularly stellar record. So many projects have been given the boot by the tech giant that there's even a Killed by Google website that collects all 300-plus of them.
Now, we can add Google Earth Pro to the list — and the announcement has caused consternation among Google fans.
An official poston the Google Earth support forums declared that “While you can continue using the legacy Google Earth Pro desktop app, it will no longer be available for new downloads beginning on June 25, 2027.” Users are being pointed towards the mobile and web versions of the app “for the best...
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