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I think GCP hasn't cancelled products either? The comparison would have to be to Amazon as a whole. And they must have a graveyard just as big as Google's. Rem
by jsnell 8y ago
I think GCP hasn't cancelled products either? The comparison would have to be to Amazon as a whole. And they must have a graveyard just as big as Google's.
Remember when Amazon used to run a search engine? No? They were really big into it. I even used it for a while, around 2006. Then they cancelled it, with no replacement. Remember the Fire Phone? Unsurprisingly they quickly discontinued it with no successor. (And before you object... By the standards of the "Google kills all products" meme not making a follow-up to a hardware device counts. And this wasn't the Fire Phone riding slowly into the sunset with a deprecation period.)
They had competitors for Paypal, for Yahoo Answers,
Amazon used to have a Paypal competitor too. They killed it with no replacement. How about that Yahoo Answers competitor they had. Guess what? Dead. With no replacement. Amapedia, their "wikipedia for products sold on Amazon" is of course dead. Because it was an Amazon product, and that's what Amazon do. They make products, and then they kill them.
But somehow you're willing to give Amazon a free pass, while thinking that the worn-out joke about Google is a "valid point".