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by villedepommes 3012 days ago
Agreed. I just wish it wasn't Google. They "extinguished" a lot of good projects...
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killjoywashere 3012 days ago
Meh, I think they've grown up some and see what Amazon has done. Building infrastructure services for customers adds long-term revenue. BMW doesn't make you buy fuel injectors from someone else.
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deadbunny 3012 days ago
Name one product in GCP (that had reached general release) that they have "extinguished".
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villedepommes 3002 days ago
These immediately come to mind. I'm sure there's more if I dig deeper.

  * Theano -> TF
  * The multitude of RSS readers -> Google Reader
  * Severely undermined Firefox
  * Usenet newsgroups -> Google Groups
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8perezm 3011 days ago
Google custom search
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deadbunny 3011 days ago
Not part of GCP. Yes they have a history of shutting down free services but things in GCP don't get shut down, they are products, products people pay for.
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