[jc4p]

This wikipedia list is missing a lot of APIs, it seems more related to products -- For example, the QPX API (which I used) was shut down this April and is nowhere in that list. Your numbers are lower than they should be.

[joshuamorton]

I'm pretty sure the qpx API was a purchase, not something Google started. So it's arguable that you can categorize it the same way.

[dingle_thunk]

I'm pretty sure shutting down critical parts of acquired products is a major part of the problem.

[shshhdhs]

agreed. Just because they were acquired doesn’t mean that the acquisition customers didn’t feel the pain from being forced deprecated

[zaarn]

Notable there would be the recent incident where Twitter bought some ML startup for abuse analysis and shut down customers overnight with almost no warning.