[cyphar]

Which raises the obvious question -- why make a service that you know will eventually be shut down because of said economics. Especially one that (by design) will render many documents unusable when it is shut down.

While I generally find the "killed by Google" thing insanely short-sighted, this borders on straight-up negligence.

[johannes1234321]

There was a time in Google where anything seemed possible and they loved doing experimental or fun things just for doing them. The ad machine printed money and nobody asked questions. Over time they started turning into a normal corporation with bean counting.