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Rather than retire products like Cloud Print, why not spin them off as separate companies, or sell them? If there's a couple million users of a niche product, t
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
Rather than retire products like Cloud Print, why not spin them off as separate companies, or sell them? If there's a couple million users of a niche product, that would seem to argue for its continuation.
It seems as if this "sunset" approach unnecessarily alienates the user community and reflects badly on Google.
- jbellis 6y agothere's a couple million users of a free niche product.
- gumby 6y agoOne consequence of Google's monorepo is that even small services like this might depend on all sorts of google infrastructure and thus be effectively impossible to spin off. This isn't necessarily a bad thing: the point of the monorepo is to make it easier and faster to write things like this in the first place.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIn fact, I believe Cloud Print depends on Google Talk/XMPP!
- gumby 6y agoThat’s pretty funny and might be a good reason for it being sunsetted.
- supergirl 6y agoit's not because it's a monorepo. that affects just version control. it's the fact that is may be deeply dependent on other google services. would have been same problem with many repos
- gumby 6y agoTechnically true: I used it as synecdoche: (essentially) everybody has access to (essentially) everything. And also a bit of hyperbole on my part as not everything is in the same repo.
- londons_explore 6y agoCloud Print still depends on some Google Talk internal API's. Google Talk went away long ago, and all it's infrastructure was still running for cloud print, making it very expensive to keep going for a small number of users.