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#43surprised Pikachu face Does Google have any more space in their graveyard?
It is a Google's graveyard. They will sunset this one (stop accepting new "bodies") after 2 to 5 years, and open a new, "improved" one, with worse UX and lost features.
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#44I had never heard of this thing before. I know there is this running joke of Google killing their stuff all the time, but do they just suck at launching, or at least promoting, services?
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#45Every 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?
Counterpoint: since Google has firmly established a reputation for killing their own products, people who would otherwise find value in certain Google products (beyond search ads gmail and android) avoid them and never hear about them to begin with.
I wonder if they are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy: google launches a product, people avoid it assuming it’ll get killed off, google says the user metrics don’t justify the investment, and they kill it.
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#46Will 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?
Less spray & pray in the first place? It's already clear that their product strategy is fruitless, can you name a Google product from the last 5 years that stuck, loved by masses and deserves to be kept operational by their own measures?
I would try switching to spending the money on acquisitions.
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#47In an economy balanced less towards megacorps, a specialized hosting business might thrive
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#48If I was Thomas Kurian I would be going scorched earth on people in other Google divisions doing this. Every single closure, no matter how minute, hurts GCP's chances.
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#49colour me surprised google is shutting down another product /s
Do you consider it bad that they experiment with new products?
Depends on where you stand... If you're one of the people who comes to rely on the product, then your answer would probably be "yes".
The cost of the experimentation is people wondering what product they'll discontinue next and whether it'll be one that _they_ rely on. If you find yourself asking this often enough, you'll probably start moving out of the Google ecosystem. How is this good for Google?
Yes, I understand that products need to pay for themselves, but Google keeps drawing people into services that they then shut down. It's frustrating for users and damaging to Google. What's the cost of the damage to their reputation?
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