[myko]

> this is also why they kill older products. The cost of keeping the lights on is greatly elevated when keeping the lights on means keeping up with the latest codes.

This is a really good point and I think accurate when it comes to smaller Google endeavors. I don't think this killed Stadia, for example, but maybe Google Trips (an amazing service that I don't think many folks used and likely had few development resources assigned, or none).

[taeric]

Yeah, I would not mean this to include Stadia. That said, if it adds costs to the smaller Trips and such, it has to add cost to the larger things, too. That is, if it makes the cheap things expensive, it probably makes the expensive things even more so.