4 ms·
The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web com
by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web companies are careful about starting a new service or adding a new feature because it means committing to supporting it for a long time. Google just starts 1 billion projects a year and kills everything that isn't a smash hit meaning you can't depend on anything they release.
Although about 70% of this list was rightfully killed. Stuff like youtube for 3ds and then it includes things that were simply renamed or updated.
- pishpash 6y agoGoogle doesn't only kill unpopular things. If it did, you can depend on those things that have already become popular by not being an early adopter, which then becomes a chicken-and-egg problem that at least provides some strategic level of negative feedback to Google.