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This is a great insight into why Google completely failed to compete with established game industry titans. They don’t get the industry, don’t get the customers

This is a great insight into why Google completely failed to compete with established game industry titans. They don’t get the industry, don’t get the customers, don’t get their partners. Doing a rug pull on another company’s monthly active users pretty much guarantees that no game publisher will ever take them seriously ever again. That bridge is torched.

Gibbon1 4y ago
Reminds me of Intel. Back in the day they had a huge contract with Panasonic to supply flash chips. And then they decided to renege on it. Panasonic put Intel on their banned suppliers list.
- atdrummond 4y ago
  How does that work when I can still get a new Intel-based Durabook and AFAIK that line has been ongoing without any discontinuity.
  - TkTech 4y ago
    Are you maybe thinking of the Panasonic (Japan) Toughbook? I don't think the Durabook (Taiwan) brand has anything to do with Panasonic?
    - Gibbon1 4y ago
      Also that was 20 years ago and I could misremember. Or the two might have made up.
- lemper 4y ago
  they still sell toughbooks with intel chips [1] currently. can you confirm the validity of your statement? [1] https://business.panasonic.nl/mobile-solutions/rugged-laptops-for-harsh-environments https://business.panasonic.nl/mobile-solutions/rugged-laptop...
thrillgore 4y ago
You can expand this to any new sector Google gets into. Nobody will risk using a Google service because it's at the whim of a shutdown in months.
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
Honestly, I find that so surprising. I’m used to Google pulling the rug under their users. They are a B2C company for most of the product they stop. It only somewhat damages their image. Probably not much revenue lost there. But mismanaging their large business partners seems new. That’s the kind of reputation which can really negatively affect their other B2B products. For it to leak like that in the press, they must really have botched it. Makes you wonder what’s happening at Google.
- behaveEc0n00 4y ago
  They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does not seem to have a clear vision forward with the cheap cash tap turned off.
  - piva00 4y ago
    At least here on the outside of Googleplexes, the feeling of a directionless Google/Alphabet is becoming very palpable. I can't tell anymore what they're trying to do, earlier Google was exciting with new products and features for us techies. GMail launch was awe-inducing at the time, now we know such excitement came with the cost of a steady march of dead products and leaving a dissatisfied mass of users/consumers in its wake. The last big move playing out I remember from Google was YouTube's purchase. I don't know what Google wants to do or be, it's has slowly became a big ball of mud around the cash cow from DoubleClick's acquisition...

Gibbon1 4y ago

Reminds me of Intel. Back in the day they had a huge contract with Panasonic to supply flash chips. And then they decided to renege on it. Panasonic put Intel on their banned suppliers list.

atdrummond 4y ago
How does that work when I can still get a new Intel-based Durabook and AFAIK that line has been ongoing without any discontinuity.
- TkTech 4y ago
  Are you maybe thinking of the Panasonic (Japan) Toughbook? I don't think the Durabook (Taiwan) brand has anything to do with Panasonic?
  - Gibbon1 4y ago
    Also that was 20 years ago and I could misremember. Or the two might have made up.
lemper 4y ago
they still sell toughbooks with intel chips [1] currently. can you confirm the validity of your statement? [1] https://business.panasonic.nl/mobile-solutions/rugged-laptops-for-harsh-environments https://business.panasonic.nl/mobile-solutions/rugged-laptop...

thrillgore 4y ago

You can expand this to any new sector Google gets into. Nobody will risk using a Google service because it's at the whim of a shutdown in months.

WastingMyTime89 4y ago

Honestly, I find that so surprising. I’m used to Google pulling the rug under their users. They are a B2C company for most of the product they stop. It only somewhat damages their image. Probably not much revenue lost there. But mismanaging their large business partners seems new. That’s the kind of reputation which can really negatively affect their other B2B products. For it to leak like that in the press, they must really have botched it. Makes you wonder what’s happening at Google.

behaveEc0n00 4y ago
They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does not seem to have a clear vision forward with the cheap cash tap turned off.
- piva00 4y ago
  At least here on the outside of Googleplexes, the feeling of a directionless Google/Alphabet is becoming very palpable. I can't tell anymore what they're trying to do, earlier Google was exciting with new products and features for us techies. GMail launch was awe-inducing at the time, now we know such excitement came with the cost of a steady march of dead products and leaving a dissatisfied mass of users/consumers in its wake. The last big move playing out I remember from Google was YouTube's purchase. I don't know what Google wants to do or be, it's has slowly became a big ball of mud around the cash cow from DoubleClick's acquisition...