[iteratethis]

Google drastically needs portfolio management. The qualifications for this position should be very low, some very basic common sense would do.

I suppose they can get away with all of this because the concept of competing for a customer doesn't really exist at Google. They can toy around without any consequences because they have a money printer.

Also, at Google's current size, anything producing less than 1B in revenue per month is frankly not that interesting. Small stuff.

[tistoon]

Google is an advertisement company. Not a tech/app company. Google creates free apps solely on the incentive to gather and sell your data.

[pcurve]

I think part of the problem is, almost all their products have been free... launched as free and remained free without clear monetization plan, except to grow userbase.

There was no strong disincentive for pulling the plug on products without paying customers.

For the past few years, they've been trying to 'correct' that and in the process pissing everybody off.