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> conflation of free Gmail/etc. consumer products with GCP. * Google Domains * Google Cloud IoT Core * Jamboard Also they increased Google Maps pricing by l

> conflation of free Gmail/etc. consumer products with GCP. * Google Domains * Google Cloud IoT Core * Jamboard Also they increased Google Maps pricing by like 10x at one point, and they increased Cloud Storage prices pretty substantially last year too. Price increases can be just as impactful as killing a product. I don't think AWS has ever increased any prices or shut down any service (though quite a few are essentially zombies - SimpleDB, OpsWorks). Then on the consumer side, Google have killed quite a few paid products. One that bit me was they shut down Google Cloud Print which killed the ability for me to print to my (cheap) printer from my phone. Besides that, there was Nest Secure, Stadia, etc. etc. Google's reputation problem isn't just coming from their free consumer apps.

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ericpauley 3y ago
Public IP prices just saw a massive (announced) price increase. Admittedly it was from free, so perhaps not a true “increase”.
slimsag 3y ago
Didn't they also shut down GSuite Hangouts for a while, before eventually bringing it back?
- ehPReth 3y ago
  I don't think so - I think they were hard moved to "Google Hangouts Chat" which is now just "Google Chat"
  - folmar 3y ago
    AFAIR that was loss of some features and some data.
baldeagle 3y ago
AWS just KILLED EC2!!! Well, EC2-classic. And they did so with two years of notice and support to transition all customers. Really a class act of migration. I'm not sure Google won't just send out an email on a Friday before a long weekend and then kill the servers the following Monday. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-classic.html https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-cl...
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rapind 3y ago
Google search appliance.
- gumby 3y ago
  That one was such a long time ago when they were struggling to find PMF. I do my best to avoid Google bc I don’t trust them or their quality, but I think I’d give them a pass on the search appliance.

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ericpauley 3y ago

Public IP prices just saw a massive (announced) price increase. Admittedly it was from free, so perhaps not a true “increase”.

slimsag 3y ago

Didn't they also shut down GSuite Hangouts for a while, before eventually bringing it back?

ehPReth 3y ago
I don't think so - I think they were hard moved to "Google Hangouts Chat" which is now just "Google Chat"
- folmar 3y ago
  AFAIR that was loss of some features and some data.

baldeagle 3y ago

AWS just KILLED EC2!!! Well, EC2-classic. And they did so with two years of notice and support to transition all customers. Really a class act of migration. I'm not sure Google won't just send out an email on a Friday before a long weekend and then kill the servers the following Monday. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-classic.html https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-cl...

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rapind 3y ago

Google search appliance.

gumby 3y ago
That one was such a long time ago when they were struggling to find PMF. I do my best to avoid Google bc I don’t trust them or their quality, but I think I’d give them a pass on the search appliance.