Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Super sincere question. > Google's reputation for not supporting things long term I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me. Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#382Translation, for those unfamiliar with internal Google politics: We have already promoted and transferred all the product managers and senior developers who created Stadia. None of them will suffer any ill effects from this disastrous waste of Alphabet resources. All our other struggling products, though: we're still fully committed to those. Really. You can believe us this time.
I would love to know how many promos and packages Stadia generated. Was it at last efficient by this measure?
So many google projects seem to be quite inefficient in this regard - a handful of people get a promo and abandon the project, millions spent.
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#383As expected™ for a Google project
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
So that was a lie
I doubt it was a lie in the sense that the person who said it believed it to be false. I think this instead falls under Frankfurt's definition of bullshit: speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. But there's a corporate twist here, in that the person saying might have believed it to be true, because some executive also believed it to be true, even though if you take Google as a whole, it was always unce…
Publicly, knowingly uttering bullshit of which you know it's false, or has a high probability of being false, is simply called lying.
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#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically, I bet if that Stadia would've done much better if it had launched with the promise of "if we do shut it down, we'll refund all your purchases"
Yes! I timidly used the service knowing that Google might kill it. If they promised me a refund I would have probably spent a couple hundred dollars on content, controllers and a pro membership.
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#386Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Super sincere question. > Google's reputation for not supporting things long term I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me. Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?
https://killedbygoogle.com/ Lists the lifetime and EOL of everything Google has killed, along with a short blurb about the termination
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#387Sundar Pichai is like the anti-Satya_Nadella. Since taking over Google, the company has only gone downhill but they haven't realized this, heads will only roll once they get hit over their search and ad dominance, by that time it will be too late.
Think of Sundar as being like a nicer version of Steve Ballmer. He only existed to help the company grow as fast as possible in terms of revenue and market share. It seems likely Ruth Porat will replace him soon and then Google's transition to evil will be finally complete.
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#388I still have fond memories of users here telling me that I shouldn't shit on Stadia, that it was the future of gaming and that Phil Harrison is a fucking hack that keeps failing upwards despite fucking up every single product he has been on.
Thanks Phil for proving you truly are a bottomless pit in which companies can throw money in to make it disappear.
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#389While inevitable, I am impressed they are refunding all purchases, including hardware. That can't be cheap.
Their 7 customers will be relieved.
My main computer is a MacBook 2103 running Linux. Stadia was my only way to play games. I’m kinda mad I’m losing my save progress on some games.
Ironically I will probably use my refund to buy a steam deck.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit of a conundrum: every company is going to shut down products. What's the best way to launch new, risky things? Startups can simply go all in on the product, and if it fails, the company dissolves, though people rightly are hesitant to go with a fly by night startup for exactly that reason. I'm not even sure that Google has shut down more products than an equivalently sized company. But it's certainly shut…
> I'm not even sure that Google has shut down more products than an equivalently sized company. AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB). And only when they had a viable alternative (DynamoDB) and helped their biggest users make the move. I can't recall any Apple service that has been shut down without an alternative. They've certainly cancelled hardware programs, but that doesn't br…
Windows phone was the biggest shutdown of all time. Off the top of my head, there's also Edge and Silverlight.