[bnt]

At this point, why is anyone relying on Google APIs (or even GCP!) for serious work? It feels like Google is contempt with Search, Ads and Android.

[Axsuul]

Google Poly looks like a fun experiment that unfortunately didn't pan out to their expectations. Google APIs/GCP have paying users that businesses depend on. It wouldn't be fair to have them in the same room.

[supermatt]

It’s one of the main features of the $20 tiltbrush app. People ARE paying for it.

[chaostheory]

I was about to ask if TiltBrush relied on this. Thanks for confirming. It's hard to buy anything made by Google that hasn't been around for close to a decade, unless you don't care whether or not that product stays around.

[tclancy]

Now that is a Freudian slip!

[sergiotapia]

Is that a Freudian slip, DALE?!

[throwaway129013]

What's really scary is that people rely on golang ignoring that it is entirely corporate-driven.

(Go ahead and downvote me a ton)

[packetlost]

I mean, it's a language and open source. If the community really hates the direction Google takes it, they can fork it and support whatever features they want.

[skyzyx]

Every language in widespread use today is either corporate driven or corporate sponsored.

PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Swift, Obj-C, Rust…

Welcome to capitalism, friend.

[input_sh]

I mean, that's what you get when the internal metrics are skewed towards shipping new products, paying no attention to maintaining or improving existing ones.

[dehrmann]

> or even GCP

At least you're paying for GCP.

[fakedang]

And they aren't making a profit on it. I think it will last a bit longer though - shutting down GCP would mean admitting a huge defeat.

[bnt]

Beyond ML, can GCP even compete? They will never be able to catch up to AWS, and Azure is growing super fast.

[fakedang]

Tbh, they are the most user friendly of the three platforms I guess, so they could compete on that. But I doubt Google will realize that.