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Well this is one way to kill your cloud business. Even a hint that execs were considering or debating this move is enough to kill any serious company's interest
by fredley 7y ago
Well this is one way to kill your cloud business. Even a hint that execs were considering or debating this move is enough to kill any serious company's interest in GCP.
Why would you ever consider GCP over AWS/Azure knowing that the Google scythe could kill it at any time, with your suspicions confirmed by a leak this? Bonkers.
- jfoster 7y agoIt's so stupid that they've got this reputation now. A lot of the things they've killed could've instead been sold/spun off instead. Shutting down successful services that are not successful enough by Google's standards has given them a bad rep at the same time as destroying value. Reader could've been a successful company on its own for sure, for example. I wasn't a user of it, but there was enough people who loved it enough.
- xvector 7y agoIt’s a well-deserved reputation. I’m glad it’s sticking
- setr 7y agoHe meant it was stupid that Google let itself gain this reputation; it was easily avoidable
- Tyr42 7y agoI think google builds stuff in a way where it depends on the google stack. That makes it harder to spin off or sell, as you'd basically have to re-write it.
- throw_away 7y agoIf only they had their own externally available cloud service where they could dogfood their stuff on and spin-off could be an account transfer.
- datavirtue 7y agoTrue. I was looking at the list of Google projects that were killed off and realized it was a pool of great ideas for startups. In a lot of cases they were ahead of thier time or could have been pivoted slightly into other products/markets.