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Google Poly is shutting down

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Re: Google Poly is shutting down

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Post by megaunicorn123 »

tomcam wrote: post #6
mrcarruthers wrote: post #3

colour me surprised google is shutting down another product /s

Do you consider it bad that they experiment with new products?

Experimenting is fine. shutting down good products and replacing them with inferior ones (and adding a chat messenger in every product) is not.

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Post by 0x53 »

tomcam wrote: post #9
lqet wrote: post #2

Will there be any Google products left at the end of 2021?

If you were running Google, what would your strategy be regarding products that can’t support themselves?

Not to release products without a plan to support them for a certain amount of time.

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Post by udia »

tomcam wrote: post #9
lqet wrote: post #2

Will there be any Google products left at the end of 2021?

If you were running Google, what would your strategy be regarding products that can’t support themselves?

Make the source code publicly available under a permissive open source license so the community can run the software. Scrape/generate a read-only archive of the site and host the static files for the next ~2 years before finally dropping the domain.

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Post by flohofwoe »

Yet another Google service which I only know about by reading the news that it is shutting down. This one looks pretty great. Would be nice to see announcements when those things are launching, not when they are shutting down ;)

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Post by ma2rten »

Every time Google is shutting down a product there are the same kind of reactions like “I will not trust google running anything more than a year”, “killedbygoogle.com”.

I’m wondering, have you ever heard about this product? I for one have no clue what this is. How many more products does google have that you never heard about and that are not shut down?

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