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Disc: Googler Since you are comparing to AWS, do you have any source for apparently lots of products that were killed in Google Cloud?
by what_ever 7y ago
Disc: Googler
Since you are comparing to AWS, do you have any source for apparently lots of products that were killed in Google Cloud?
- meowface 7y agoTrue, my analogy wasn't great. But when comparing Amazon as a whole and Google as a whole, the only thing Amazon killed that comes to mind is the Fire Phone (maybe there's more I'm not aware of), while there's a laundry list of things that come to mind for Google. Also not totally fair because Google has provided a ton of free web apps and Amazon hasn't, but I think it feels more personal when Google removes something that provides a daily quality of life improvement for many people.
- what_ever 7y agoHow many Amazon apps do you use other than Amazon.com, Kindle, Echo? How is it still a fair comparison?
- meowface 7y agoYeah it's still not really a fair comparison (though one could easily imagine Amazon shuttering Fresh, or certain Kindle or Echo features). I could compare it to a company like Cloudflare, who do offer lots of different public, free services (even if their market is different) and don't seem to have shut anything down. Maybe not the best analogy either, but the problem is no other company has the kind of breadth of free public consumer-facing services that Google has, so no analogy would work. On one hand that could be a defense, by saying what Google's doing is unique and risky so sudden cancellations are to be expected. But on the other hand who knows how another company might handle a similar situation; we have no way of knowing.
- what_ever 7y agoWell one has a way of knowing by looking at the type of services by their not so short track record instead of going on with their bias or intuition.