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In all likelihood the “transfer” is just a way for Google to save face and avoid yet another “Google kills project” news cycle. Good on the editors for not fall
by zapita 7y ago
In all likelihood the “transfer” is just a way for Google to save face and avoid yet another “Google kills project” news cycle. Good on the editors for not falling for it.
- Covzire 7y agoAnother possibility is that the legal landscape was more hostile than Google anticipated and they essentially got squeezed out.
- bootlooped 7y agoIsn't "this didn't go the way we thought it would and we're not willing to fight for it" the reason why all their products die?
- beatgammit 7y agoNo, it seems their products die because there's more prestige in launching a product than maintaining one.
- libria 7y ago"This went poorly because we care far more about launch than execution" is really the same spirit as the gp's paraphrase.
- spicyramen 7y agoMany products from Google die because is a bottom up company: many ideas that make it into products come from Engineering directly, (guys who wants o solve challenging problems), to later find out that the business analysis was poor...and an internal performance system that advocates for launches
- justinclift 7y agoSo, extremely poor governance?
- spicyramen 7y agoDefinitely, specially in Cloud where Enterprise don't like cool projects or experiments, they need solid roadmap and commitment from product companies
- foolfoolz 7y agosilicon valley: “fail fast” also silicon valley: “google shuts down too many things”
- Mountain_Skies 7y agopublic: not interested in adopting a product that likely will disappear when I start to depend on it
- microcolonel 7y agosame public: not paying for wifi in some area for a year, on somebody else's dime, but still getting upset at whoever provided it when the glory days are over.
- enesismail 7y agoEven if you pay for it, it’s highly likely to disappear when it comes to Google.
- 6510 7y agopublic: This would have been such a lovely product, now it will never happen :(