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Google seems to shut down services mostly on the basis of adoption being too low. For its scale, tens of millions of users could mean a failure. However, those
by Lutger 4y ago
Google seems to shut down services mostly on the basis of adoption being too low. For its scale, tens of millions of users could mean a failure.
However, those services could be profitable, just at a smaller scale. They could keep them around and exploit them without too much investments. This is what other large companies do, they won't break the experience for their customers because they value them.
Google has another approach.
- wongarsu 4y agoMaybe Google's problem is that as a company they are set up to run products of google-scale. They could start a subsidiary company that gets all of the "too small for google" products, keeping them alive build customer trust and maybe even turn a profit
- baq 4y agoThey can’t! Their monorepo, build system and internal deployment infrastructure makes it technically and legally very expensive, thus politically impossible. It’s so much easier to just shut down anything not making enough insert metric instead of spinning it off. Disclaimer: haven’t ever worked at Google, so just guessing