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It's probably because by and large Amazon kills physical products and Google kills services. If someone buys a Fire Phone and it gets discontinued - well, prod
by kristianc 8y ago
It's probably because by and large Amazon kills physical products and Google kills services.
If someone buys a Fire Phone and it gets discontinued - well, products getting discontinued is part of life and it doesn't (usually) affect the usage of the one you have.
If Google builds a web service, then that service has the chance to grow to 50m / 100m users before deciding that it is not worth supporting. Law of large numbers says of those 50/100m a non-trivial proportion will invest substantial time in it and get pissed off when they have to make alternative plans.
If Amazon killed Prime Video or Audible, I bet you’d see a pretty huge outcry.
- wstrange 8y agoAmazon ended music uploads [0] But - yea, no HN outrage... [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201379330 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
- jimmy1 8y agoWait until Amazon starts killing off some AWS services or features.
- marcinzm 8y agoWhich is likely why they have gone out of their way to not kill off AWS services.