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Bets on: 1) When it will be shutdown? 2) When it will get ads? EDIT: Does google have a paid shill force on hacker news? They are copying well from the IBM and Apple playbook
> Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Bets on: 1) When it will be shutdown? 2) When it will get ads? EDIT: Does google have a paid shill force on hacker news? They are copying well from the IBM and Apple playbook
Why do you expect it to get ads? The vast majority of Google products are ad-free, apart from Search and YouTube.
Are people honestly not creeped out when you get ads from other people's phones?
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Google is distinct in their bad attitude though. What it feels like is: An engineer at google builds something cool. Management decide it could be a product, and a bit of tooling here and there and BAM it’s released. It goes well, then it stays. It goes poorly or even just average, then it gets thrown out. And what of the users who put faith in the new product? Screw them it’s not profitable enough. Compare to AWS, a…
> Compare to AWS AWS is not a consumer-facing organization. The standards there are entirely different. Google Cloud has a much more stable offering than Google writ large. Very few of the products on gcemetery.co are cloud-related.
Bets on: 1) When it will be shutdown? 2) When it will get ads? EDIT: Does google have a paid shill force on hacker news? They are copying well from the IBM and Apple playbook
> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data. > Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Why do you expect it to get ads? The vast majority of Google products are ad-free, apart from Search and YouTube.
the ads aren't directly in the product, but that data ends up trying to provide you with "relevant" ads, just like the Android phone itself. Are people honestly not creeped out when you get ads from other people's phones?
I should be able to use the documents and their tags to build more derivative tag data so that when I'm given a new document I can compute a set of automated tags for the user.
This way when you save a document to your repository it's given some suggested tags.
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> Compare to AWS AWS is not a consumer-facing organization. The standards there are entirely different. Google Cloud has a much more stable offering than Google writ large. Very few of the products on gcemetery.co are cloud-related.
How is AWS not being consumer facing relevant? Both Google and Amazon started out being consumer facing and now have a cloud division. Their cloud divisions not being consumer facing is irrelevant.
Before you say, "Amazon never shuts anything down, even outside of cloud." A) They do [1]. B) They have a tiny range of products compared to Google, so of course the absolute frequency of shutdowns will also be lower.
And before you say, "Well, better to have nothing than to have something and have it shut down." A) Some people [2] would disagree. B) Just don't use products in the category (consumer services) that Google tends to shut things down in.
But, please, whatever you do, don't spam every single thread where Google launches a cloud product (a category where they have a decent track record) with your gripes about Google Reader or whatever. It's not helpful and it's not relevant.
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9605840/amazon-shuts-dow... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson