[nowarninglabel]

This one hurts because I recommended to and helped a number of business users to use Fusion tables as an alternative to building out something in-house.

It's really weird for them to write: "Google has developed several alternatives, providing deeper experiences in more specialized domains" and then not actually provide any alternatives.

[dragonwriter]

> It's really weird for them to write: "Google has developed several alternatives, providing deeper experiences in more specialized domains" and then not actually provide any alternatives.

It would be really weird for them to do that, but the sentence you quote is immediately followed by a bulleted, annotated list of alternatives (stripped of descriptions, those listed are: Google BigQuery, Google Cloud SQL, Google Sheets, Google Data Studio, and an upcoming set of new map visualization tools that you can sign up for info about.)

[zepto]

I wonder which of these has a better projected lifespan?

[DannyBee]

Fusion tables was alive for 9 years, so ...

[zepto]

Some of those are living on borrowed time then.

[css]

There is an entire section where they not only list and link to the alternatives but also describe how they can act as a replacement.