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Google can do that. How could they kill even the IoT core, my fleet of devices just died. (No resources to migrate)

by szundi 2y ago

kylehotchkiss 2y ago
Their killing of domains, selling that to Squarespace, then Squarespace selling to PE was the most incredible degradation of service I've seen in a while!
- dpkirchner 2y ago
  It was such a bizarre choice, I don't understand. Why wouldn't they want new businesses to come to them first? Naming a company often involves getting a domain and then paying for hosting, email, and/or other services. This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block.
  - vineyardmike 2y ago
    > This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block. GSuite is the most profitable part of GCP, and it's totally propping that division up. It'll be the last to go - it's a lot easier to recognize bad management. Domains probably was expensive to maintain or understaffed for some reason, and some exec knew a guy a Squarespace.
  - vel0city 2y ago
    I don't see how domains going away would suggest Google suite is near the chopping block. I doubt many major customers of GSuite even bothered with Domains. It was such a a small and bare bones business, pretty unrelated to the rest of GSuite.
- antihero 2y ago
  Wait what's the latter part of this? I know they were sold to Squarespace, but who's PE?
  - kennyadam 2y ago
    Private equity https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/15/private-equity-company-to-acquire-squarespace/ https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/15/private-equity-company...
justinclift 2y ago
Oh wow, I didn't realise they'd dont that. Going to the page though: https://cloud.google.com/iot-core https://cloud.google.com/iot-core ... shows this: Google Cloud IoT Core has been retired. Several years ago a startup owner I was friends with was doing IoT stuff. If they'd ended up choosing the Google option for their device comms they'd have been in a bad place from this. Pretty sure they went with the AWS IoT stuff though. At this point, I wonder if there's anyone left on Earth who Google haven't screwed over in some significant way?

Google can do that. How could they kill even the IoT core, my fleet of devices just died. (No resources to migrate)

by szundi 2y ago

Google can do that. How could they kill even the IoT core, my fleet of devices just died. (No resources to migrate)

Their killing of domains, selling that to Squarespace, then Squarespace selling to PE was the most incredible degradation of service I've seen in a while!

dpkirchner 2y ago
It was such a bizarre choice, I don't understand. Why wouldn't they want new businesses to come to them first? Naming a company often involves getting a domain and then paying for hosting, email, and/or other services. This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block.
- vineyardmike 2y ago
  > This all makes me think gsuite will be next on the chopping block. GSuite is the most profitable part of GCP, and it's totally propping that division up. It'll be the last to go - it's a lot easier to recognize bad management. Domains probably was expensive to maintain or understaffed for some reason, and some exec knew a guy a Squarespace.
- vel0city 2y ago
  I don't see how domains going away would suggest Google suite is near the chopping block. I doubt many major customers of GSuite even bothered with Domains. It was such a a small and bare bones business, pretty unrelated to the rest of GSuite.
antihero 2y ago
Wait what's the latter part of this? I know they were sold to Squarespace, but who's PE?
- kennyadam 2y ago
  Private equity https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/15/private-equity-company-to-acquire-squarespace/ https://domainnamewire.com/2024/05/15/private-equity-company...

justinclift 2y ago

Oh wow, I didn't realise they'd dont that. Going to the page though: https://cloud.google.com/iot-core https://cloud.google.com/iot-core ... shows this: Google Cloud IoT Core has been retired. Several years ago a startup owner I was friends with was doing IoT stuff. If they'd ended up choosing the Google option for their device comms they'd have been in a bad place from this. Pretty sure they went with the AWS IoT stuff though. At this point, I wonder if there's anyone left on Earth who Google haven't screwed over in some significant way?