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Choose your own adventure. You begin your new pie in the sky project on the shiny new Google Workstation. One day the big G in the sky: A) suddenly suspends yo
by ethanpil 4y ago
Choose your own adventure. You begin your new pie in the sky project on the shiny new Google Workstation. One day the big G in the sky:
A) suddenly suspends your workstation without notice and no recourse or contact for tech support. after giving up all hope, ignore this account and then eventually go to (B) or (C)
B) Cancels the entire Workstation product
C) Loses interest in Workstation and leaves it to slowly die with a minimum life support and no bug fixes or updates for years and then... Go to (B)
- jiggawatts 4y agoComments along these lines are invariably the top-rated feedback to every such Google announcement. There is no way that they are unaware of this customer sentiment at this point. Which makes me wonder: why haven't done anything about this?
- metadat 4y agoBecause the Big-G CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruthless Ruth Porat are merely stewards serving at the wish of and executing orders from, erm, fulfilling the vision of the board of directors (Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc). At this late stage, it's time to exploit the resources and milk thr asset for every last penny. The board of directors are concerned primarily about profitability and ROI. Nothing lasts forever. Except perhaps man's greedy desire to accumulate ever more wealth and power. This too, shall pass.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoThe executive function of a large enough organism may lose control of some of bodily functions. Or their compensation may depend upon the existing incentive structure, regardless of how customer-hostile it may become.
- addicted 4y agoBecause it doesn’t impact the handful of money earners they do have. ie various version of Ads.