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You have a good point. My theory as to why a lot of people assume that Google will simply cancel something isn’t just because Google has cancelled a lot of pro
by chaostheory 4y ago
You have a good point. My theory as to why a lot of people assume that Google will simply cancel something isn’t just because Google has cancelled a lot of products because other companies do the same. The reasons are because 1. Google kills products and services rather quickly compared to their peers, 2. Until Stadia, Google never refunded the cost of their product unlike say Amazon with their product experiments, 3. Building on point 2, Google has had fire sales 1 month before a product cancellation announcement without refunds. I was personally burned by this and it does the opposite of building good will, and 4. These product cancellations have directly affected everyone who is now wary of Google starting with Google Reader users. The most disappointing soft cancellation of all was Google Fiber.
This tc article sums it up really well https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one...