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>> Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services? Yes. Unsuccessful products get cancelled. The successful services get to sta
by 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 agoExcept 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 agoI 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