[rdtsc]

> I really don't like things like this.

Really? Can you explain more why. Is there an article accompanying it that shames Google or says anything bad about it. To me it just looks like a company that iterates and is trying new things.

> A lot of these projects ended up as other projects or built into other projects.

Well it would be bad if they completely threw away the code, and then hired a whole new group of people to work on a similar project. That would make them look worse.

[res0nat0r]

Nah, the whole reason it exists, and is linked here is to try and pile on that Google is terrible and shuts down products that everyone in the world loves. But the reality is the minor minor subset of the world that is HN loved some of these projects and were upset no one else used them, thus they were shut down.

I haven't seen any accompanying MS articles like this, mainly because there haven't been angry posts here of MS shutting down products we think they should keep running forever that no one uses.

[Aldo_MX]

> I haven't seen any accompanying MS articles like this, mainly because there haven't been angry posts here of MS shutting down products

Quite the contrary, people seem to be happy when MS shuts down a product.

http://ie6countdown.com

[pjc50]

Have you not seen how much outrage appears whenever Microsoft change the Windows desktop?

Microsoft also gets the reverse treatment: criticism for "excessive" backwards compatibility^ and leaving old products in use that people want to kill (IE6).

^ Except when they were sabotaging Lotus, Quarterdeck, OS/2, and Samba back in the 90s.

[Navarr]

I volunteer time for a project called The Shotbow Network - it's a Minecraft game network. We've got lots of projects, and there are features etc that we hype up and then either cancel or don't release.

Inevitably, though, everything that went into building either those mini-games or that feature for another game ends up in all of our future projects.

This sort of thing makes it look like those projects are completely dead, despite the fact that they live on either in full or in part under rebranded names or driving Google's next big feature.