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Google rarely makes unilateral decisions from the top down to product teams. Apart from shutting them down.

• runeks 10y ago
  To be fair, relying on product teams to shut themselves down, in case they've hit a dead-end, probably wouldn't work.
  • TillE 10y ago
    Actually, why not? It's not like the employees get fired. You generally know when you're working on a crappy product.
    • atsaloli 10y ago
      Google Reader was a fantastically useful product for me. Not "crappy" at all.
      • toyg 10y ago
        That's the point parent is making: the Reader team probably wouldn't have opted for shutting down, and they would have been right.
        • phasmantistes 10y ago
          The reader team didn't exist (and hadn't for years) at the time the decision was made to shut it down.