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There are over 2 billion MAU on Google Maps...so for Google, yes its only... It wasn't sustainable

• Gibbon1 6y ago
  Most normal companies are okay with small divisions. Sometimes they'll sell them off. It feels like Google is like Intel. They reflexively kill anything that isn't going to be worth a few hundred million in revenue.
  • muratsu 6y ago
    Alphabet has a revenue per employee of $1.5M. In order to keep that number they need big hits. That's why small products just get abandoned / die.
    • csande17 6y ago
      I'm now thinking about the math here. If they put Reader in maintenance mode, even with big-company inefficiency it'd probably only take three full-time engineers to keep it running. That means that they'd need revenue of $4.5M per year to stay competitive with other Google departments. That's less than $3 per user. Google can't squeeze $3/year in ad revenue out of a product used primarily by wealthy plugged-in tech types?