The other prob is the size of the company. If say a couple of dudes make a 10 million dollar steady business. It changes their lives. A 10 million dollar ste

The other prob is the size of the company. If say a couple of dudes make a 10 million dollar steady business. It changes their lives. A 10 million dollar steady project in a company the size of google will probably get killed. It does not 'move the needle'. They probably can produce hundreds of small applications that are cool and slightly profitable. They even try it. But if those products do not 'hockey stick' forget it. Then also your point people stopped trusting them to long term support 'new' things. Also getting support out of them if you are using some of their products seems to be awful. That reflects badly even on products where they do give decent service as they now have a reputation for that.