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Not really. Proven trackrecords matter. Also, Google can shut down this product without thinking twice. A company that has it as their sole product however, ca
by richforrester 9y ago
Not really. Proven trackrecords matter.
Also, Google can shut down this product without thinking twice. A company that has it as their sole product however, can't.
That's a huge difference.
- chaosite 9y agoStartups fold or get bought and shutdown their product all the time. With Google you usually get a year heads-up before your API disappears Sure, both scenarios are not ideal, and there are usually other very good reasons to prefer the non-Google solution. But it's not like going with Google is a horrible mistake that would leave you SOL.
- fuck_google 9y agoGoing with Google just makes you look like a fool. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
- richforrester 9y ago> (or larger companies) in this space That's what I'm responding to. Of course startups can be far worse. Goes without saying.
- s17n 9y agoAccording to the above poster, Google has killed 27% of their products. Way more than 27% of startups don't make it.
- richforrester 9y ago> (or larger companies) in this space That's what I'm responding to. Of course startups can be far worse. Goes without saying.
- s17n 9y agoYou mentioned companies with only one product, aka startups.
- jimnotgym 9y agoI don't think this necessarily follows. There are established companies with long track records who specialise in one area.
- musage 9y ago> companies with only one product, aka startups. from the top of my head: http://renoise.com/ http://renoise.com/ https://www.gpsoft.com.au/ https://www.gpsoft.com.au/ https://www.ultraedit.com/ https://www.ultraedit.com/ Incidentally, they're the best in their respective fields I know of. They don't make products, they don't make product, they make and improve these particular applications. I would LOVE them to expand and make, say, clothing and hair gel with that same intelligent, no-nonsense craftsmanship approach. Not to mention operating systems and search engines. For now I'll dream of Directory Opus for Linux and not even get that.
- onion2k 9y agoIt feels like that's only part of the story though. What's key is which products get killed, and very simply it's anything that doesn't directly make money or indirectly make money by locking you in to Google's core offering. That's perfectly fine, and wholly understandable, but it means products like this data studio that don't directly relate to ads, publishing or mapping are likely to get killed in the future. When people suggest not using it for fear it'll disappear one day they're making what appears to be, to me at least, a rational decision.