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Will anyone trust google after the number of projects they’ve dropped?

• crazygringo 8y ago
  Will people ever stop making this comment on HN? It's just not adding anything to the conversation anymore. I've seen it 50 times across the past 50 announcements of even the smallest thing Google launches. Reader was discontinued five and a half years ago. Code search six years ago. Wave seven years ago. Plus wasn't discontinued, it just pivoted to paid G Suite-only. Sometimes well-intentioned products just don't make money. Let's move on.
  • robdachshund 8y ago
    It's a perfectly valid question regardless of your opinion on the matter. Don't police other people's comments. Parent is adding to the convo; you are not by trying to shut them down.
  • intended 8y ago
    I’d say, That’s a bit hyperbolic. I don’t think google has launched 50 things in the past half year, and that’s the time it’s taken me to shift positions and begin to consider this question. It’s for Games and gamers. Gamers, especially PC gamers are a very different market than your general genial HN-going techie or casual content consumer. For them a well intentioned product which may “disappear” is something they have increasingly had enough of. Further google doesn’t have the brand reach of Sony, MSFT, valve, Nintendo etc. If it is a concern I have, then it’s a concern other gamers will have. while I admit it’s easy to dismiss my 1 line comment as matching some sort of pattern, it wasn’t written with that history in mind. It was written spontaneously and without an agenda.