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Amazon shutdown Drive (their dropbox competitor), there are plenty of consumer services Amazon has shutdown. Google's problem has been their tendency to shutdow

Amazon shutdown Drive (their dropbox competitor), there are plenty of consumer services Amazon has shutdown. Google's problem has been their tendency to shutdown perfectly good services because they aren't successful as ads. Reader is the posterboy for this; a service probably used happily by millions (or tens of millions) that had the plug pulled. The fear with Stadia wasn't that Google may just shut it down, it's that it could have been very successful, with millions of happy users, and Google still would have shut it down. That's what separates Google from other companies.

gregmac 4y ago
> Reader is the posterboy for this; a service probably used happily by millions (or tens of millions) that had the plug pulled. I feel like there's a whole generation of people who are now in senior decision-making roles who are still bitter about Reader. Killing that product, specifically, is likely costing billions per year in GCP revenue.
throw10920 4y ago
jedberg said "AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB)" - emphasis on AWS, not Amazon as a whole. Big difference when you're talking about developer services, as opposed to end-user services. Now, it's a perfectly valid point that Stadia is a consumer service, like Drive - but in a thread where there are discussions about developer services (GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important.
- nemothekid 4y ago
  >(GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important. The distinction is meaningless in that case because GCP hasn't sunset any services either.
  - throw10920 4y ago
    Google has shutdown many developer-facing services, no?
  - scarmig 4y ago
    GCP did shut down IoT Core. Only one I know of, though.
silisili 4y ago
> it could have been very successful, with millions of happy users, and Google still would have shut it down Weeps in Google Play Music and Hangouts.

gregmac 4y ago

> Reader is the posterboy for this; a service probably used happily by millions (or tens of millions) that had the plug pulled. I feel like there's a whole generation of people who are now in senior decision-making roles who are still bitter about Reader. Killing that product, specifically, is likely costing billions per year in GCP revenue.

throw10920 4y ago

jedberg said "AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB)" - emphasis on AWS, not Amazon as a whole. Big difference when you're talking about developer services, as opposed to end-user services. Now, it's a perfectly valid point that Stadia is a consumer service, like Drive - but in a thread where there are discussions about developer services (GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important.

nemothekid 4y ago
>(GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important. The distinction is meaningless in that case because GCP hasn't sunset any services either.
- throw10920 4y ago
  Google has shutdown many developer-facing services, no?
- scarmig 4y ago
  GCP did shut down IoT Core. Only one I know of, though.

silisili 4y ago

> it could have been very successful, with millions of happy users, and Google still would have shut it down Weeps in Google Play Music and Hangouts.