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> ...mostly by Readergate... Oh, come on... seriously? This argument is trotted out every single time Google shuts down something: "you are still upset about Google Reader". No: we are upset about all of those other things that get shut down, and people from Google shifting blame to Reader over and over and over again is nonsensical at this point: there are so many many examples of things being shut down, and Reader…
I appreciate your passion. My argument isn't that Google doesn't shut down B2B services. It's that I have seen no evidence that Google does it at a vastly outlying rate relative to the industry. IANAL, but Both AWS [0] and Azure [1] have 12-month deprecation policies - this is industry standard, as mentioned in the Google Developers blog you link. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ [1] https://azure.microsoft.com/…
What a shitty way to put down his well supported argument, shame on you. This isn't about his passion - he is refuting your statements with actual facts to the contrary, and you try to make him out like he is passionate about the whole thing (planting the idea that he is somehow not thinking with his head, but with his heart) as opposed to taking a well-supported position against your handwaving that this is somehow all about market perception. Do you work for the marketing department or something?
Political slimery. Ugh.