Google has quietly pulled the plug on its notifier service for Calendar and Gmail events for the desktop. The feature had been in service for nearly 10 years before Google decided to pull the plug on it.
The Verge has reported that the free notifier app is no longer being supported by the Internet giant. Part of the blame lies on the fact that in the age of smartphones, smart web browsers and even smarter operating systems, a notifier of this sort was redundant.
The notifier tool could check for new mails and calendar events every two odd minutes and would inform users of the messages. The free noitifier tool also served as an intermediary to users who back in the day would not use native calendar or mail clients, leaving the heavy work to be done on the browser itself.
Google did end up replicating much of the notifier's features into its products like Chrome and Google Talk, though and that's what the company wants you to do now too. When you attempt to install the notifier app now, Google will simply ask you to install Google Chrome, since the browser comes with built in notifications system and pretty much most of Google's most important tools for productivity.
On its own support page, Google has told users that the notifier is now no longer supported and has listed down steps for users to follow and uninstall the feature from both Windows as well as from Mac.
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