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If I hand my child over to someone else to raise forever, I'm ditching them. :p
by xeromal 7y ago
If I hand my child over to someone else to raise forever, I'm ditching them. :p
- booi 7y agoA 3 month old at that
- pcdoodle 7y agowtf?
- cma 7y agoBut if you sell a car to a new owner, you aren't ditching it in the woods.
- xeromal 7y agoIf you owned it for 3 months, I'd think you were nuts.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoNotice that you had to add "in the woods" to make it clear that ditching is negative here.
- chii 7y agobad analogy. There's no parent/child relationship between this service and google. As long as the service is continued, there's no issue as to who is owning and operating it. Using children makes it seem like google is providing essential operational expertise to keep the child alive, and the child would die if stopped.
- xeromal 7y agoNah, my analogy between a kid or a car is that if you get thing that is meant to be decently long term, car at least a year or a kid at least 18 years, you wouldn't give up in 3 months. There's not many things a person would own or have that giving up in 3 months wouldn't see like ditching it. Even giving up a cell phone in 3 months is pretty daft
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> Using children makes it seem like google is providing essential operational expertise to keep the child alive, and the child would die if stopped. In the same way that when a child is adopted, it instantly dies?
- rvnx 7y agoWhen you are Google, you have millions in funding, almost unlimited engineering ressources, political connections and many good reasons why a project would be successful (journalists, audience, users, accounts, etc) Once you transfer the responsibilities; all of the support that kept the project stay afloat disappears. It's not sustainable anymore, there is much limited growth, all the business model for exploiting data for advertising cannot exist anymore, etc. Well, it's dead you know.
- jbc1 7y agoProducts often die when transferred to another organisation. They never say that they will die in the announcement. See https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ It's entirely reasonable for people to assume this is basically Google shutting down the free WiFi service but with extra steps.
- tmpz22 7y agoDepends if the project continues to use google branding or has a “built by google” tagged on to it in order to mislead customers that it is still somehow maintained by them.