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> ...they decided to couple it's disclosure with shutting down the whole product. Let's not pretend the product was shut down because of this bug. Google Plus
by asaph 8y ago
> ...they decided to couple it's disclosure with shutting down the whole product.
Let's not pretend the product was shut down because of this bug. Google Plus was a failed product. This security issue was just a convenient event to which they chose to attach the news.
Google's own words on the matter:
> This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.[0]
[0] https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s...
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoOh, no doubt G+ was a failure. And that's coming from someone who was with it since its launch and still uses it today. But it was closed due to this bug and the drama surrounding it. It wasn't "convenient" to announce closure alongside the bug, the bug actually became much more widely discussed because it was attached to a product shutdown. I can't imagine anyone at Google wanted this to go down that way, it would've been better to quietly shutter it at a different time. But the Wall Street Journal announced it, as part of the memo that they got internally. So Google had to announce it at the same time in the same post, and it was definitely the cause of the product shutdown.