[IAmEveryone]

These complaints about Google "moving too fast" used to really confuse me. I couldn't really spot a meaningful difference in mean survival b/w Google products, start-ups similar to individual Google products, and other businesses' behaviour.

But I've now attained zen-like clarity on the issue: the complaints are coming only, and always were coming mostly, from people whose idea of appropriate change over time is to still complain about Google Reader almost a decade after it happened.

[Hello71]

this is being intentionally obtuse. Hire shutting down got 200 points 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815293, also see: Hangouts, Google+, Nest, Code Search, Site Search.....

it's not about "moving fast" at all. it's about google killing anything that doesn't make millions as opposed to just thousands (enough for basic maintenance). I never said anything about timeframe.