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It's a broader question than the pass given to any one particular start-up that pivots. If one actually was upset about the likeliness of something being kille
by msabalau 13y ago
It's a broader question than the pass given to any one particular start-up that pivots. If one actually was upset about the likeliness of something being killed off, one would never use anything from the start-up ecosystem, where almost everyone fails, most of those that don't pivot, and many winning scenarios aren't wins from the end user perspective.
Start-ups should try different things and stop doing the stuff that doesn't work. So should Google. And Jobs saved Apple by killing off most of the products and projects when he returned from Next.
- DominikR 13y agoI agree with you, but I also think that we should consider more datapoints before evaluating how a company treated its product and customers. In the case of Google Reader, we saw a product lifespan from 2005 to 2013. That's eight years. What lifespan can a user reasonably expect from any software product, and at what point is a company killing products so fast, that it's unlikely most customer will extract any value out of it. (considering the time needed to learn using the product and so on)