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This is getting boring. Which products that Google has given an SLA on have they dropped without transitioning users and against SLA? Not prototypes or random

This is getting boring. Which products that Google has given an SLA on have they dropped without transitioning users and against SLA? Not prototypes or random free experiments but actual products?

reaperducer 7y ago
Why the SLA qualifier? That's like saying, "Go ahead and name one Google product with an owl in its logo that got randomly dropped. You can't. That means Google is stable."
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
  Because otherwise it is deeply pointless to complain about a company dropping prototypes. The SLA tells you they are planning to support it. Anything else is just you using a free prototype.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    Sure. So the take-away is still, whatever you don't sign an SLA for with Google is liable to disappear on short notice. Including Google's interest in RCS.
littlestymaar 7y ago
Google reader wasn't an experiment, it was an 8 years old product with millions if users, and it was closed with just a little bit more than 3 months notice. Which is a ridiculously short notice…
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
  Which they never made money from. Corporations tend not to provide free stuff forever.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Then don't buy it. RSS was doing just fine until Google stepped in. It's a pretty clear case of EEE.
  - inferiorhuman 7y ago
    Which they never made money from. So we should adopt a "standard" which Google profits off of? More specifically we should rely on something for which Google's profits are the primary goal? No thanks.
ulfw 7y ago
What does an SLA have to do with Google having dropped numerous messaging attempts? Please stay on subject.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
  The product which people pay for in Gsuite has undergone a seemless transition from hangouts to hangouts chat...
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    First of all, it's seamless, second, if there is anything that isn't seamless it is Gsuite, it feels like a mess of cobbled together stuff.
  - dorfsmay 7y ago
    Wil Google make money from RCS?
neom 7y ago
To my dismay, they sunset Google Hire.
casefields 7y ago
It’s getting boring because it’s so common that it’s become nearly unnewsworthy. Frankly, that’s quite embarrassing.

This is getting boring. Which products that Google has given an SLA on have they dropped without transitioning users and against SLA? Not prototypes or random free experiments but actual products?

reaperducer 7y ago

Why the SLA qualifier? That's like saying, "Go ahead and name one Google product with an owl in its logo that got randomly dropped. You can't. That means Google is stable."

hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
Because otherwise it is deeply pointless to complain about a company dropping prototypes. The SLA tells you they are planning to support it. Anything else is just you using a free prototype.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Sure. So the take-away is still, whatever you don't sign an SLA for with Google is liable to disappear on short notice. Including Google's interest in RCS.

littlestymaar 7y ago

Google reader wasn't an experiment, it was an 8 years old product with millions if users, and it was closed with just a little bit more than 3 months notice. Which is a ridiculously short notice…

hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
Which they never made money from. Corporations tend not to provide free stuff forever.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Then don't buy it. RSS was doing just fine until Google stepped in. It's a pretty clear case of EEE.
- inferiorhuman 7y ago
  Which they never made money from. So we should adopt a "standard" which Google profits off of? More specifically we should rely on something for which Google's profits are the primary goal? No thanks.

ulfw 7y ago

What does an SLA have to do with Google having dropped numerous messaging attempts? Please stay on subject.

hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
The product which people pay for in Gsuite has undergone a seemless transition from hangouts to hangouts chat...
- jacquesm 7y ago
  First of all, it's seamless, second, if there is anything that isn't seamless it is Gsuite, it feels like a mess of cobbled together stuff.
- dorfsmay 7y ago
  Wil Google make money from RCS?

neom 7y ago

To my dismay, they sunset Google Hire.

casefields 7y ago

It’s getting boring because it’s so common that it’s become nearly unnewsworthy. Frankly, that’s quite embarrassing.