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Normally I would agree, but not in this case. It is unlikely they will EOL these services any time soon. They are paid services and could represent a signific

by daveguy 10y ago

Normally I would agree, but not in this case. It is unlikely they will EOL these services any time soon. They are paid services and could represent a significant revenue stream for Google.

chippy 10y ago
> could represent a significant revenue stream If it does not, we should, like other Google offerings, expect it to be cut. Google has a strict internal business case (new from around 2010 or so) - what they do now has to make money, it's no longer enough to be getting more people to use the internet, or increase use in the brand, the services has to make business sense. Let's hope it is used and profitable, eh.
- daveguy 10y ago
  > what they do now has to make money That's a fair concern. However, as of 2015 they already have between 3 and 5 % of the cloud market [0][1]. It is likely they are already profitable with the usage they have (cloud is pretty high margin). There have been very few google products that were officially taken out of beta. Google Search and Google Mail are two of those. True, Google has a terrible reputation for dumping small dev and consumer facing products. Their cloud offerings are a completely different category. Not least of which, because they have no free tier -- only free trial. Anyone who continues to use Google Cloud products is paying for them. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topple-in-the-cloud-and-where-everybody-else-falls-2015-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topp... [1] http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-microsoft-azure/ http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-micro...
ffggvv 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
- scrollaway 10y ago
  You are linking to a disputed "leak", which has been more or less debunked, in response to something completely unrelated. Did you think this through?

by daveguy 10y ago

Normally I would agree, but not in this case. It is unlikely they will EOL these services any time soon. They are paid services and could represent a significant revenue stream for Google.

chippy 10y ago

> could represent a significant revenue stream If it does not, we should, like other Google offerings, expect it to be cut. Google has a strict internal business case (new from around 2010 or so) - what they do now has to make money, it's no longer enough to be getting more people to use the internet, or increase use in the brand, the services has to make business sense. Let's hope it is used and profitable, eh.

daveguy 10y ago
> what they do now has to make money That's a fair concern. However, as of 2015 they already have between 3 and 5 % of the cloud market [0][1]. It is likely they are already profitable with the usage they have (cloud is pretty high margin). There have been very few google products that were officially taken out of beta. Google Search and Google Mail are two of those. True, Google has a terrible reputation for dumping small dev and consumer facing products. Their cloud offerings are a completely different category. Not least of which, because they have no free tier -- only free trial. Anyone who continues to use Google Cloud products is paying for them. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topple-in-the-cloud-and-where-everybody-else-falls-2015-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topp... [1] http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-microsoft-azure/ http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-micro...

ffggvv 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976

scrollaway 10y ago
You are linking to a disputed "leak", which has been more or less debunked, in response to something completely unrelated. Did you think this through?