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The thing is that GCP used to have this, but then got rid of it a couple years ago. So is there really demand for it in most of their customers?
by Intralexical 3y ago
The thing is that GCP used to have this, but then got rid of it a couple years ago. So is there really demand for it in most of their customers?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoGoogle killing a product cannot be used to assess popularity. Especially if the product’s existence would potentially hurt revenue.
- Intralexical 3y agoIt can certainly raise questions about popularity, however, as long as you also adequately consider their tendency for rent-seeking, monopolistic behavior, etc. In this specific case it's more that I'm having a hard time picturing serious "cloud"-based web companies that decide "Oh yeah sure we'll just shut our site down if we get too many visitors". That would mean this feature is useful primarily for hobbyists, which are more likely to be put off by (and react like they do to roaming phone charges to) uncapped costs (and also not a reliable source of revenue), weakening the revenue argument for removing the feature.