| > The problem with this reasoning is that the numbers will start to look a lot less practical if we consider the total number of projects Google has shut down. If we applied this reasoning each time, they'll be out of cash a lot sooner than your estimate. This should not be true and if it is, it’s just further indication of a problem. I said 1 ten thousandth of cash on hand for 1.1 million years to drive home how much of a paradigm breaking amount of money they have. They could make a blank rule that every app gets 20 years of maintenance and support and support 55,000 projects for 1/10000 of their budget. Now realistically I feel your comment is still missing the point because it’s not even about saying they should maintain these apps anymore. It’s about the fact that your hard earned dollar is a a drop in the bucket for them. Literally. Imagine a bucket holding a bucket of water. Imagine 1.5 million of these buckets back to back. $1 of your money, is one drop in all 1.5 million of these jugs for Google. Now pardon my visualizations here but I find it helps when you’re talking about such stupid amounts of money, to help put things into perspective. They don’t care about services unless the returns are going to be astronomical in one dimension of another. - Every service they make like a VC backed startup on their Series A... except they go and attach literally the biggest name in modern technology to it, which lulls people into a false sense of security and also expands the reach of these projects so that them shutting down affects many more people than an early stage product shutdown should. This is what angers so many people |