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regarding stadia, What did you think they would happen? They have a graveyard of great projects that should still be used by millions. The only things I see con
by subsubzero 4y ago
regarding stadia, What did you think they would happen? They have a graveyard of great projects that should still be used by millions.
The only things I see continuing are android, ads, search, I even feel with the severe losses their cloud unit is seeing even GCP could be shut down. Hell I could even see them abandoning Waymo, I mean this is google after all :)
- colinmhayes 4y agoThey're not killing chrome. I doubt they kill their office suite either, it has really good numbers among young people, and microsoft's entire business is built on the back of its enterprise productivity software. It's a trillion dollar market cap business.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThe Office suite is used by every Googler every day (and that's every Googler, not just eng). It's what the company runs on. There's no way in hell it's getting shut down when it's that critical to business operations.
- bushbaba 4y ago...they killed some productivity apps. Don't say never. Hangouts, dead. Keep App, dead. Enterprise Search, dead. etc
- chrisconroy 4y agoKeep isn't dead. I use it everyday on my personal and business account. I love keep. I will be sad when the inevitably kill it though.
- hn_go_brrrrr 4y agoKeep is dead?
- CydeWeys 4y agoHangouts functionality basically still exists, just under a different name. It's still integrated in Gmail, with the same contact list, and all the previous conversations from Hangouts were still there. It's so similar that I bet many people don't even realize anything changed. This is unlike, say, Reader, which was canceled with no replacement to this day.
- patmorgan23 4y agoThey could shut down the public facing product and make it internal only.
- CydeWeys 4y agoBut why would they? The Google Docs suite is a billion+ user product, which is monetized through Google Workspace and Google for Education (with many millions of paid user subscriptions). This is just not remotely plausible of a shutdown target. It also dates back to 2006. I'm struggling to think of even five Google products I would name as being less likely to be shut down.
- fbergen 4y agoI very much agree with you, and think it will hurt the company in the long term But to give some credit where it's due: reimbursing all Stadia purchases is a very customer friendly way to shut it down
- jddj 4y agoGmail probably has legs
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- citizenpaul 4y ago>GCP could be shut down I'm I dumb for assuming that google must use GCP internally? Therefore making it pretty much immune from being shut down. I guess they could go full internal tool with it?
- hotpotamus 4y agoI believe I've read here that it is not pervasively used internally.
- bushbaba 4y agoGoogle does not use GCP internally. If they did they'd be bragging about it.
- hn_go_brrrrr 4y agoIt's got some decent usage internally, but it's small potatoes next to Borg.
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- buscoquadnary 4y agoI don't think they'll ever shut down GCP. But I could see them discontinuing services within GCP over time.
- ghaff 4y ago>Hell I could even see them abandoning Waymo That seems less improbable than even a lot of other cuts. A science experiment that doesn't have a clear path to an assistive driving revenue opportunity much less something transformational? I'd probably make an argument that they have to keep plugging on GCP but could cut Waymo loose without much collateral damage.
- cavisne 4y agoWaymo has taken a fair bit of external funding. Google could in theory cut them loose which would effectively kill them, but I'm not sure they could just shut it down.