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It sucks when Google kills a product I love (okay, pretty much just Google Reader), but I also like that it means Google can take risks on new products. If they
by gkoberger 8y ago
It sucks when Google kills a product I love (okay, pretty much just Google Reader), but I also like that it means Google can take risks on new products. If they didn't have a mentality of trying lots of new things, we likely wouldn't have GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Android, etc... not to mention new things like WayMo or Calico.
On top of that, most "dead" products aren't gone completely... there's a strong Google alternative that they're investing in.
- timClicks 8y agoThe most obvious case of this is Writely, listed right down the bottom. Yes, the brand is well dead, but Google Docs is still very strong.
- on_and_off 8y agoAlso Fabric. Sure they are killing the brand but they have been busy merging Crashlytics and Firebase crashes into one product for a very long time. Fabric even has a nice roadmap page where they explain where this is going. Also both products have different advantages : - Fabric is way more mature - The base approach of Firebase is 100% better than what Fabric does : it runs on a separate process so it can catch crashes that are totally silent for Fabric, like crash at startup or native layer crash. So while I would not have liked to still have 2 competitors, it is good to see these merged.