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Checkout isn't mentioned on Gwern's predictions for google product closure: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns I h
by tedks 13y ago
Checkout isn't mentioned on Gwern's predictions for google product closure: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
I hope he updates the page now that we have this additional data point, I'd love to see how his predictions performed.
- mortehu 13y agoThat's because his post is newer than the announcement that Checkout would close. It was probably in his "Dead products" list.
- gwern 13y agoIt's actually in the followup list. I added it 152 days ago (21 May 2013) when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740447 hit HN announcing the closure of Checkout in November, but that apparently was after I closed down data collection so I could finalize the analysis. (Wow, did I finish that analysis that long ago?) From my notes, I'm confused about how to treat it. The discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740447 among various HNers suggests that it's sorta like Checkout is becoming Google Wallet, but also sorta not, so I'm not sure whether to consider this one of the transition/renamed products or whether Checkout was killed and Wallet happens to have some similar functionality.