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Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?

• achtung82 6y ago
  Usually yes.
• animationwill 6y ago
  >> Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services? Yes. Unsuccessful products get cancelled. The successful services get to stay but the customers get hit with "insane price hikes": https://www.geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google-maps-api-insane-price-hike/ https://www.geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-go...
  • treesknees 6y ago
    Except for Reader, Inbox, Cloud Print, the Nest API, Code, among many others I'm sure. It doesn't seem to matter whether they're successful or popular.
    • tehlike 6y ago
      I was a big reader person, but google is victim of its own success. These products were barely above a few million users. At google scale,1% is more than 15m person, and usually 1% is not justifiable
• tiz_io 6y ago
  Yes. But also no. RIP Reader.
  • falcolas 6y ago
    Probably didn't help that there wasn't an easy path to monetization for Reader.
    • mbreese 6y ago
      Huh? If Google didn't want to charge a fee for use (which doesn't seem to be how Google works), then they could easily have inserted their own adds into the RSS feeds. Or had an ad bar in the Reader interface. It seems like Google of all places would have been able to figure out how to support that with ads. I just don't think that they wanted to. It didn't fit into how they thought people would be interacting with the Internet in the future, and I can't say they were all that wrong...
      • tehlike 6y ago
        Too small of a product for google scale. See my other comment in this thread.