Nope. Huge products will be fine as long as they stay huge.
Google doesn't support new products enough to become huge and don't seem to have a cohesive plan to support a range of products in the long term.
I'm probably someone who could have benefited from Stadia but I feel like they never marketed to me in a way that even got me to try it. And the fear that this was just another experiment by Google didn't have me seeking it out on my own especially for the up front costs.
For YouTube I think it would be something like it will slowly turn into CNGooGSNBC and be heavily editorialized where you need to work with an AI assisted nebulous entity for weeks before you can upload content.
I agree with this. At some point YouTube could possibly only allow monetizable content, meaning anything that veers even slightly out of mainstream, or covers topics that advertisers don't want to associate with, will get deplatformed.
Nope because both are extensions of ads. Both are bought and managed within google ads manager. Basically a product lasts at google ifnm it can reach ad placement scale. Docs is useful for it's data and to help personalization of ads so it stays. Most of the tool shutdowns couldn't have ads or didn't assist ads effectiveness.
Not unless the products start failing or human population grows 10x and they don’t keep up relative to other Google products. Google takes products seriously when they have huge user counts and huge user counts relative to their competition. Their problem is their inability to seriously commit to growing valuable new products to that size.
100%. Not sure which will go first but my guess is youtube will fold into another product. Gmail will start breaking and be sunsetted. It would not surprise me to see search sunsetted.
There are 2 classes of product that I don't see them shutting down.
1. Those that make lots of money, e.g. search, youtube, maps. Unless that changes of course.
2. Those that are heavily used internally at Google, e.g. gmail, docs, calendar. They are always going to want those as internal tools. I guess they could make them internal only, but how much more work is it to maintain the public version too given it already exists?
Google doesn't support new products enough to become huge and don't seem to have a cohesive plan to support a range of products in the long term.
I'm probably someone who could have benefited from Stadia but I feel like they never marketed to me in a way that even got me to try it. And the fear that this was just another experiment by Google didn't have me seeking it out on my own especially for the up front costs.