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by tannerbrockwell 2028 days ago
Google is an organization run by engineers. They have no concept of marketing, or product placement or community engagement. They build for an audience of engineers, and if a wider cross-section of the population embraces a product that is purely by happenstance rather than design. As an enterprise they appear to have AD/HD, these products are launched and supported for awhile and then dropped. It is baked into the corporate culture, and I don't think it will or can change.
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Innovation is over here, and Stagnation is over there.

You can't expect them to a) Innovate, and b) Pay forever for something that's not succeeding.

You may draw the line differently, but in this specific instance, I think you're being unfair.