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Google creates endless new products and services and will only provide it love and attention if it does well, but it won't do well unless it gets love and atten

Google creates endless new products and services and will only provide it love and attention if it does well, but it won't do well unless it gets love and attention, thus a seemingly endless cycle of new things that get killed before many even are aware of them. And of course, people are aware of this trend so when Google launches something that does sound interesting many may choose to not use it because they know it will be taking away just as they start to rely on it.

DaedPsyker 6y ago
It is a fragmented company in which anyone looking to stand out creates a whole new product. Once they've moved on the new team has no real interest and another cycle starts with them looking to create a new product to standout. I can only assume something similar in AWS world since that thing is crammed pack with some new feature that tweaks something. I cant really fault the employees, companies don't have much culture of loyalty anymore. May as well get in and get what you need before getting out.
- random5634 6y ago
  Has AWS ever killed a product? I used simple DB forever before switching to dynamoDb - I didn't remember I was using it - but it kept working
  - DaedPsyker 6y ago
    Oh no I dont think so. I meant more that success seems to be more measured by launching features rather than any other metric.
    - random5634 6y ago
      Except people's complaint about google is that they kill products. These companies are so large they launch TONS of stuff to avoid being out innovated. Echo took off for example, fire phone flopped, book store did well, AWS took off, I'm sure some other things flopped. But AWS just does not seem to actually kill their compute products. So my example was simply SimpleDB I'm not sure is even available in console anymore, but it all still worked (a few years ago - they've probably killed it by now I guess).
  - Throwaway1771 6y ago
    All of their products are cloud open source tools, not SaaS type creations.
pjmlp 6y ago
Here is another good examples, - Jetpack Composer vs Flutter vs PWAs Android vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia
reindeerer 6y ago
Somehow those promos have to get done right ? Couple of OKRs, a few perf cycles, launch, and move on. Also great perf stories for people who took care of sunsets

DaedPsyker 6y ago

It is a fragmented company in which anyone looking to stand out creates a whole new product. Once they've moved on the new team has no real interest and another cycle starts with them looking to create a new product to standout. I can only assume something similar in AWS world since that thing is crammed pack with some new feature that tweaks something. I cant really fault the employees, companies don't have much culture of loyalty anymore. May as well get in and get what you need before getting out.

random5634 6y ago
Has AWS ever killed a product? I used simple DB forever before switching to dynamoDb - I didn't remember I was using it - but it kept working
- DaedPsyker 6y ago
  Oh no I dont think so. I meant more that success seems to be more measured by launching features rather than any other metric.
  - random5634 6y ago
    Except people's complaint about google is that they kill products. These companies are so large they launch TONS of stuff to avoid being out innovated. Echo took off for example, fire phone flopped, book store did well, AWS took off, I'm sure some other things flopped. But AWS just does not seem to actually kill their compute products. So my example was simply SimpleDB I'm not sure is even available in console anymore, but it all still worked (a few years ago - they've probably killed it by now I guess).
- Throwaway1771 6y ago
  All of their products are cloud open source tools, not SaaS type creations.

pjmlp 6y ago

Here is another good examples, - Jetpack Composer vs Flutter vs PWAs Android vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia

reindeerer 6y ago

Somehow those promos have to get done right ? Couple of OKRs, a few perf cycles, launch, and move on. Also great perf stories for people who took care of sunsets