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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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Post by rpdillon »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #64
cultureswitch wrote: post #45

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Extremely disingenuous point you're making about OnHub. Nintendo didn't remotely remove functionalities from the Gameboy Color. Google did that with OnHub. Arguing "it's hardware" doesn't work when the features are cloud-based and the company shuts down the servers. It's bait and switch, pure and simple.

So is the expectation for every single cloud-connected item or online product that the servers remain online ad vitam aeternam so that future archeologists can still use the item when it's rediscovered and restored in 10,000 years? You just have the wrong expectation for online products.

Strawman.

I bought a router. I never expect any router to stop working because the manufacturer flips a switch.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by Ensorceled »

eviks wrote: post #42
ed_mercer wrote: post #28

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?

Isn't it person's full right to write blog posts listing said abandoned projects? Why do people get criticized for such simple observations re. the behavior of some giant company?

Carrying water for billionaires and trillion dollar companies is a common thing on HN.

So many threads are "Trillion dollar company did a shitty thing" ... "Yes, they have every right to do that, you shouldn't complain and it's your own fault since you should have known better and stop whinging on HN about it".

At least in this case, they may be Google employees.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by madeofpalk »

LeBit wrote: post #34
onion2k wrote: post #23

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It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes. I think the 'problem' is that reputation damage doesn't really impact Google's revenue. They get the overwhelming majority of their money from publishing adverts, with a significant amount on their own properties (search and YouTube). It really doesn't matter if a bunch of gamers decide Stadia screwe…

Google Search is in great perils because of ChatGPT.

Is it actually?

I think Tiktok is more of a risk to Facebook/Instagram, yet Meta is still doing just fine.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by criddell »

jzb wrote: post #58
criddell wrote: post #48

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> If Google had lost interest they’d have no problem shutting it down by now It does feel like they’ve lost a lot of interest in Android. It’s too big for Google to just close, but I could see them selling it. If that happens, hopefully it’s to a Microsoft but chances are they will screw us all and sell it to Oracle or Xiaomi. But there are a lot of things that will die before Android or Fuschia. Here’s a list of 270…

One hopes the Google/Oracle relationship is such that Google would sell Android to any company except Oracle.

The last thing Google wants is a shareholder lawsuit if they sell it at a discount to somebody else.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by vaasuu »

remirk wrote: post #29

The dedicated Streetview app was finally killed because streetview is already integrated in regular google maps. To me, that seems like a good reason to discontinue the dedicated app. I don't get the reasoning behind this article. Half of this list is side projects which didn't work out, which is understandable to a certain degree. The article feels like blogspam riding on the hypetrain of people disliking when googl…

I mostly used the Street View app to capture 360° spherical panoramas, offline, on-device.

Now that Google has killed the app, I can’t capture those photos! The app worked fine a month ago, why not let me use it, as it worked offline‽

No one seems to be talking about this issue.

I haven’t found suitable replacement apps to capture photospheres on a (i)Phone. The suggested Street View Studio doesn’t let you capture Photo Spheres!

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by barry-cotter »

jacquesm wrote: post #129
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #98

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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…

Clear worst has got to be whatever they rolled out that was worse than GChat. Just astonishing to go from best in class to unusable in one go.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by simonswords82 »

belter wrote: post #94
LeBit wrote: post #34

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Google Search is in great perils because of ChatGPT.

I bet OpenAI is losing money on every prompt interaction you do. Estimates of the computational power required and the number of users, are that if was not for Microsoft cash injection it would be bankrupt by now.

It has started to monetise and Microsoft’s pockets are deep enough to cover the difference until profitability is achieved.
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