"If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products." That doesn't explain the mess of 8 different messaging

"If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products." That doesn't explain the mess of 8 different messaging apps each year. If Hangouts was still the de facto android messaging platform and google put some effort and marketing dollars, it would have billions of users, instead you have a mess and millions switching to iOS because android messaging is a joke. Same with payments. I get an email every 6 months for "the new google pay is now android pay and gPay is google pay". it's a joke. same with adnroid music play all access google play music plus.