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Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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> Because half the crap Google ships are “side projects which didn’t work out,” a list which apparently now includes its cloud. What do you mean by this? It seems GCP has around 10pc market share and growing.

Google Cloud “is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding” [1]. [1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

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Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Why does Google get grilled so badly for pulling products? Don’t other companies do the exact same thing, and isn’t it their full right to abandon projects when it no longer makes sense?

What other company has a literal graveyard of products? https://killedbygoogle.com

That site really stretches the definition of killed sometimes, like "Backup and Sync" (the old desktop Google Drive client) is on there because it was renamed to "Google Drive for desktop" as part of a redesign. The only thing that was killed was the "Backup and Sync" branding, the actual functionality it provided still exists.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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> Half of this list is side projects which didn't work out, which is understandable to a certain degree What happens to the people who bet on them? Do they even have a point of contact if e.g. an integration breaks? That’s the point. They’re half-baked products being put out and pulled with no care in the world. That’s the brand. Which means when a Stadia comes out, a product that could have worked if people trusted…

Google really messed up their roll outs of new products so often that it is almost a meme. You'd be hard pressed to pick a 'worst', between Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave and so on the list is long and getting longer all the time. It would be a lot smarter if they launched these separately so that they do not impact the trust relationship people have with their main brand. I don't know any other company besid…

> ... so often that it is almost a meme.

It became a meme a long time ago.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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> Half of this list is side projects which didn't work out, which is understandable to a certain degree What happens to the people who bet on them? Do they even have a point of contact if e.g. an integration breaks? That’s the point. They’re half-baked products being put out and pulled with no care in the world. That’s the brand. Which means when a Stadia comes out, a product that could have worked if people trusted…

> Because half the crap Google ships are “side projects which didn’t work out,” a list which apparently now includes its cloud. What do you mean by this? It seems GCP has around 10pc market share and growing.

Right up to the point where Google top management decides to pull the plug. Their messaging on this has been most unfortunate, if there is one thing that you can't do as a cloud services provider it is to threaten to pull the plug on the whole division if the numbers don't get into some arbitrary range for their definition of success. That pretty much guarantees that you won't make it that far.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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They used to do public betas. I remember Gmail being labeled beta in the early days.

Gmail was in beta for 5 years, from 2004 until 2009 — imho it didn’t make much sense to label something as beta when it is used by ~1B people.

i think it's about expectations

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Pixel is doing better than ever though.

Pixel still had recent major software issues (Crashing when calling emergencies, a year after the first reports), or ongoing issue, like massive battery drains in certain conditions. I bought a Pixel 6, I don't think I'll buy another Pixel again. The official pixel case got destroyed due to wear in not even a year (my own 3D printed case in TPU now lasted longer than google one). The official pixel case also caught s…

> The official pixel case got destroyed due to wear in not even a year

welcome to the "official case" club. all my iphone cases get destroyed in max 6 months, with one lasting less than 3 months. during the course of an iphone (2 years) i go thru 5-6 "official" cases.

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