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Orbital666 t1_itvm6su wrote

Oh well maybe stop cancelling every fucking thing you make 15 minutes after launching it and you’ll stop hemorrhaging cash you chucklefucks. No one wants to pay you? Fucking WILD how that works I cannot fathom why no one would trust the creators of long running well supported platforms like Stadia and Nest and Fitbit, truly the worst stewards of all their acquisitions.

If you run an “idea percolator” as they like to fancy themselves, that expense is a given, but it kinda requires you end up with saleable, finished products that people can rely on. Google and it’s management are in an abusive relationship with consumers, and consumers are catching on.

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Anon_Logic t1_itw3tp3 wrote

Just want to echo this.

I don't buy things from Google, or through Google, because I just assume Google will either drop all support for it. And the quality of their products doesn't match the cost. And everything comes with a subscription fee. Remember when you bought a FitBit and you just fucking owned it!?!? Or trying to force you onto YouTube.

Or something will go wrong and you don't have to look too hard to find Google customer support is abysmal.

And also, they're slow to adapt to the things people actually want. Like when the pandemic hit, Zoom became the default platform. Google had a platform ready to go... but its restrictive model back then meant no one cared when they finally opened it up.

Their track record finally caught up with them. Wasn't long ago people were laughing at the idea that anyone would care...

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Xytak t1_itw4loo wrote

I remember when AngularJS was an easy Javascript library that anyone could learn in an afternoon and include on a web page in about 5 minutes.

Then Google famously deprecated it when a lot of people had already built apps in it.

Don't get me wrong, the replacement Angular is better, but also has a MUCH higher learning curve. And more importantly, who can trust that they won't just retire that when it becomes inconvenient, too? Leaving any business that used it high and dry.

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mcrissjr t1_itxdqog wrote

I mean your points are valid but "hemorrhaging cash" is the most off base description I've ever heard for Google

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