R.I.P. Currents

[ChromeJob]

Most of you know that Google Play Newstand has replaced Currents. You can uninstall updates to Currents, and the first time you click its icon after installing the successor, there's a "b'bye" message and it's gone. No more Currents.

What they didn't tell us is ... no more Currents[-like] Daydream. I rather liked that Daydream, showing news from all my selected news sources. It made the Nexus 7 an interesting desktop "news ticker" while I worked.

Same recipe as they used with Hangouts. They offer Hangouts to handle all messaging, including SMS/MMS, wow, yay hurray, but forget to mention "Oops, we didn't give you any home screen/lock screen widgets to preview your SMS messages with, sorry." Pffft.

 

[wizzrah]

I kinda liked Currents so I feel your pain.

 

[tube517]

I just found this out while trying to download Currents. Not really a fan of the Newsstand.

 

[silent_sam]

Agreed, i really enjoyed getting those news feeds.

 

[ChromeJob]

I had forgotten.

Currents is alive and well on iOS. My iPod Touch's Currents works fine. Hrm....

 

[Shilohcane]

Now I have to use Feedly to replace Currents. I can't read my Tech sites as well with Newstand that seems more about selling magazines than what Current provided. Feedly is close to Currents but not quite as good.

 

[Kegman]

feedly doesn't meet my needs like currents did because currents auto updated the feeds correctly and reliably. newstand updates a couple feeds and gives up on the rest. I recently booted up my old samsung nexus phone and currents still worked. brought back fond memories.