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It's annoying that pretty much every single Google project comes with an underlying attempt at vendor lock-in.

gundmc 7y ago
GCP is arguably doing the most among major cloud providers to prevent vendor lock-in and support multicloud implementations. It's really their best play to try to get some business when they're so far behind AWS and Azure in market share.
- DelightOne 7y ago
  Hope they'll allow the same for this tool since it sounds pretty useful.
rooam-dev 7y ago
So that we really feel the pain when they shut it down :)
- 0xEFF 7y ago
  This and the parent vendor-lock in comment are so over-played out it's tiresome.
  - reificator 7y ago
    > This and the parent vendor-lock in comment are so over-played out it's tiresome. It's also tiresome that I'm losing access to my preferred music streaming platform that I pay $20/month for. No other platform lets me seamlessly put up a playlist with music from their streaming library and my own uploaded music[0]. People aren't dredging up the past here and being needlessly cynical. It continues to come up in discussions because it continues to happen. [0]: Any streaming service that doesn't let me listen to Neil Cicierega is inherently flawed.
    - fjp 7y ago
      People HN act like they are entitled to a product they like existing and being supported forever.
      - reificator 7y ago
        > People HN act like they are entitled to a product they like existing and being supported forever. No, people here are more predisposed to understand the business needs behind a given service. You're more likely to find people who understand why a service is being shut down here than picking out of a crowd. However, they're also apt to perform a deeper risk evaluation than the average person. And a glance at Google's track record shows that their services are pretty likely to be axed, and so should not be relied upon. It's not entitlement to be upset that a paid service is being shuttered in favor of another paid service with fewer (or at least very different) features by the same company. I'm paying for it. If it wasn't profitable, they wouldn't be actively developing a clone of their own product.
  - rooam-dev 7y ago
    You mean like this list? https://killedbygoogle.com https://killedbygoogle.com
  - debaserab2 7y ago
    Overplayed? These comments have never been more relevant.
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GCP is arguably doing the most among major cloud providers to prevent vendor lock-in and support multicloud implementations. It's really their best play to try to get some business when they're so far behind AWS and Azure in market share.

DelightOne 7y ago
Hope they'll allow the same for this tool since it sounds pretty useful.

rooam-dev 7y ago

So that we really feel the pain when they shut it down :)

0xEFF 7y ago
This and the parent vendor-lock in comment are so over-played out it's tiresome.
- reificator 7y ago
  > This and the parent vendor-lock in comment are so over-played out it's tiresome. It's also tiresome that I'm losing access to my preferred music streaming platform that I pay $20/month for. No other platform lets me seamlessly put up a playlist with music from their streaming library and my own uploaded music[0]. People aren't dredging up the past here and being needlessly cynical. It continues to come up in discussions because it continues to happen. [0]: Any streaming service that doesn't let me listen to Neil Cicierega is inherently flawed.
  - fjp 7y ago
    People HN act like they are entitled to a product they like existing and being supported forever.
    - reificator 7y ago
      > People HN act like they are entitled to a product they like existing and being supported forever. No, people here are more predisposed to understand the business needs behind a given service. You're more likely to find people who understand why a service is being shut down here than picking out of a crowd. However, they're also apt to perform a deeper risk evaluation than the average person. And a glance at Google's track record shows that their services are pretty likely to be axed, and so should not be relied upon. It's not entitlement to be upset that a paid service is being shuttered in favor of another paid service with fewer (or at least very different) features by the same company. I'm paying for it. If it wasn't profitable, they wouldn't be actively developing a clone of their own product.
- rooam-dev 7y ago
  You mean like this list? https://killedbygoogle.com https://killedbygoogle.com
- debaserab2 7y ago
  Overplayed? These comments have never been more relevant.

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