There are lots of examples of support for hardware being dropped, the IoT space is full of it, likewise with non IoT devices, and I can't think of any examples

There are lots of examples of support for hardware being dropped, the IoT space is full of it, likewise with non IoT devices, and I can't think of any examples of a company getting heat for it. And google is very aware that their reputation for killing products hurts adoption of new launches. https://www.itpro.com/software/360376/google-cloud-seeks-to-turn-around-its-killed-by-google-reputation https://www.itpro.com/software/360376/google-cloud-seeks-to-... (just one of many results, just happened to be the top result for "google kills things reputation")