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No idea why people are downvoting you. This is a very important question to ask when it comes to Google services.

by tjpnz 8y ago

kjksf 8y ago
If nothing else, what do you expect Google to say? "No, we'll definitely be dropping this"? The services that Google dropped were either big bets that ended up as massive failures in the marketplace (e.g. wave, google+) or services that were neither big nor strategic to google (e.g. google reader, google code). GCP is neither. If you're not convinced by the fact that Google has been pouring billions into Google Cloud for over 10 years now, organizes multi-day conferences promoting it, launches new features monthly, then no rational argument will convince you that they won't drop GCP because they also dropped google reader.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  > GCP is neither. Sure. But this one little service inside GCP? Tiny.
- j16sdiz 8y ago
  google+ for gsuite is still available .
theDoug 8y ago
It is an important question, but Google services which are largely consumer-based and no cost are a very different world from Google Cloud. People get a lot of Internet Cool Guy points these days from falsely conflating the two. I'm not the to make commitments but our history has been solid, and our deprecation policy is embedded in our terms of service for every Cloud user. The only product I can remember us deprecating in GCP was Prediction API in favor of the much-preferred Cloud Machine Learning Engine, and with that came communication to every single affected admin and a _year_ before cut-off. https://cloud.google.com/terms/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/
- rapsey 8y ago
  and the second risk is google banning your corporate account for some arbitrary reason and killing your entire company overnight. Unless one is twitter sized limiting ones exposure to googles arbitrary decisions is quite reasonable. I can get a person to talk to at microsoft for my tiny account easy and I know neither they nor Amazon will just shut me down overnight.
- reitzensteinm 8y ago
  Uh, just last year Google increased the price of developers using the maps API by an order of magnitude with no grandfathering policy, which for many users was effectively shutting the API off completely. It's not just the consumer side; Google doesn't exactly have a spotless reputation for developers, and assuming the post must be somebody faking being concerned for "Internet Cool Guy points" is just tone deaf.

No idea why people are downvoting you. This is a very important question to ask when it comes to Google services.

by tjpnz 8y ago

No idea why people are downvoting you. This is a very important question to ask when it comes to Google services.

If nothing else, what do you expect Google to say? "No, we'll definitely be dropping this"? The services that Google dropped were either big bets that ended up as massive failures in the marketplace (e.g. wave, google+) or services that were neither big nor strategic to google (e.g. google reader, google code). GCP is neither. If you're not convinced by the fact that Google has been pouring billions into Google Cloud for over 10 years now, organizes multi-day conferences promoting it, launches new features monthly, then no rational argument will convince you that they won't drop GCP because they also dropped google reader.

yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
> GCP is neither. Sure. But this one little service inside GCP? Tiny.
j16sdiz 8y ago
google+ for gsuite is still available .

theDoug 8y ago

It is an important question, but Google services which are largely consumer-based and no cost are a very different world from Google Cloud. People get a lot of Internet Cool Guy points these days from falsely conflating the two. I'm not the to make commitments but our history has been solid, and our deprecation policy is embedded in our terms of service for every Cloud user. The only product I can remember us deprecating in GCP was Prediction API in favor of the much-preferred Cloud Machine Learning Engine, and with that came communication to every single affected admin and a _year_ before cut-off. https://cloud.google.com/terms/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/

rapsey 8y ago
and the second risk is google banning your corporate account for some arbitrary reason and killing your entire company overnight. Unless one is twitter sized limiting ones exposure to googles arbitrary decisions is quite reasonable. I can get a person to talk to at microsoft for my tiny account easy and I know neither they nor Amazon will just shut me down overnight.
reitzensteinm 8y ago
Uh, just last year Google increased the price of developers using the maps API by an order of magnitude with no grandfathering policy, which for many users was effectively shutting the API off completely. It's not just the consumer side; Google doesn't exactly have a spotless reputation for developers, and assuming the post must be somebody faking being concerned for "Internet Cool Guy points" is just tone deaf.