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Opportunity cost seems like the biggest reason. Why devote resources to a project that is merely profitable when they could be working in something that is huge
by freetime2 7y ago
Opportunity cost seems like the biggest reason. Why devote resources to a project that is merely profitable when they could be working in something that is hugely profitable instead?
- freewilly1040 7y agoReasonable, but then why launch Inbox in the first place? The best email client possible is not going to displace Gmail on a billions of users scale. It makes a lot more sense from a corporate gamesmanship perspective. I think the incentives of the typical Google employee (widely believed to heavily value launching new stuff) are not in sync with the company or its users.
- erichocean 7y ago> why launch Inbox in the first place? Google didn't launch it, it was a startup that Google acquired for the team, and then killed of Inbox as soon as they could.