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The people who believe this are going to keep believing it, there's not really anything to dissuade them. A priori anything might be cancelled could be and is w

The people who believe this are going to keep believing it, there's not really anything to dissuade them. A priori anything might be cancelled could be and is worthless. Most don't have that extreme of a position, Reader and Allo were the last big deprecations.

inlined 5y ago
I can’t think of a single google cloud product that’s gone GA and then been shut down. Google has different attitudes towards consumer and enterprise products.
- pxeboot 5y ago
  Google Cloud Print was shutdown [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/ https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
  - jvolkman 5y ago
    Despite the name I don't think that was actually part of GCP.
  - seized 5y ago
    I was salty about that too, but it wasn't a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product. It just had cloud in its name.
  - jrockway 5y ago
    That's just poor branding. Google Cloud Print was not part of Google Cloud Platform. (I feel like Google just doesn't understand branding. I remember when they launched the Pixel C after the Chromebook Pixel, and it ran Android instead of ChromeOS. What was once a Chrome brand became an Android brand. I guess because Chrome was doing pretty well at the time, and Android just reminded people of slow phones that ran out of battery instantly. Sigh!)
  - jamesmishra 5y ago
    The name is "Google (Cloud Print)" not "(Google Cloud) Print"
- jfoster 5y ago
  It's not part of Google Cloud (I think?) but I bet the majority of Google Cloud customers have been using Universal Analytics. https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1504107839262011403 https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1504107839262011403
user3939382 5y ago
From what I’ve heard, which could be wrong since it’s just second-hand anecdotes —- internal Google promotions favor people who start and launch new projects rather than maintain old ones. If that’s true, Google’s products aren’t subject to cancelation in the way that any given web service is. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ In any case, given their ethical bankruptcy, I wouldn’t use anything from them given the choice. https://www.stallman.org/google.html https://www.stallman.org/google.html
- jvolkman 5y ago
  Stallman's pages for Amazon and Apple are both longer. https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html https://www.stallman.org/apple.html https://www.stallman.org/apple.html
bruce511 5y ago
Google Plus? Hangouts? Maps got a 7000% price increase... No user support for blocked accounts? My point is though that while you say "most don't have that extreme a position", I'm not sure what % it is. And does that perception, that it exists at all, hinder them from future rollout?

inlined 5y ago

I can’t think of a single google cloud product that’s gone GA and then been shut down. Google has different attitudes towards consumer and enterprise products.

pxeboot 5y ago
Google Cloud Print was shutdown [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/ https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
- jvolkman 5y ago
  Despite the name I don't think that was actually part of GCP.
- seized 5y ago
  I was salty about that too, but it wasn't a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product. It just had cloud in its name.
- jrockway 5y ago
  That's just poor branding. Google Cloud Print was not part of Google Cloud Platform. (I feel like Google just doesn't understand branding. I remember when they launched the Pixel C after the Chromebook Pixel, and it ran Android instead of ChromeOS. What was once a Chrome brand became an Android brand. I guess because Chrome was doing pretty well at the time, and Android just reminded people of slow phones that ran out of battery instantly. Sigh!)
- jamesmishra 5y ago
  The name is "Google (Cloud Print)" not "(Google Cloud) Print"
jfoster 5y ago
It's not part of Google Cloud (I think?) but I bet the majority of Google Cloud customers have been using Universal Analytics. https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1504107839262011403 https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1504107839262011403

user3939382 5y ago

From what I’ve heard, which could be wrong since it’s just second-hand anecdotes —- internal Google promotions favor people who start and launch new projects rather than maintain old ones. If that’s true, Google’s products aren’t subject to cancelation in the way that any given web service is. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ In any case, given their ethical bankruptcy, I wouldn’t use anything from them given the choice. https://www.stallman.org/google.html https://www.stallman.org/google.html

jvolkman 5y ago
Stallman's pages for Amazon and Apple are both longer. https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html https://www.stallman.org/apple.html https://www.stallman.org/apple.html

bruce511 5y ago

Google Plus? Hangouts? Maps got a 7000% price increase... No user support for blocked accounts? My point is though that while you say "most don't have that extreme a position", I'm not sure what % it is. And does that perception, that it exists at all, hinder them from future rollout?