Interesting point re: the long tail, but isn't the same true of all the hyperscalars? It's certainly true for Amazon and Microsoft, who both have a better reput

Interesting point re: the long tail, but isn't the same true of all the hyperscalars? It's certainly true for Amazon and Microsoft, who both have a better reputation for keeping the long tail of products alive than Google. So if anything, that would point at Google having optimized for this scenario better and earlier.