Chromecast is "gone" because it bridged the gap of dumb tvs needing streaming capabilities. Now almost every tv sold has some kind of smart feature or can stream natively so Chromecast aren't needed.
chromecast is alive, podcast, music were migrated to youtube app, url shortener is not core business and just side hustle for google. Not familiar with g suite legacy.
At the time Google+ was started and shortly after, leadership (larry page at that time) focused the attention of the company on it. There was a social bonus (that you'd get if you integrated your product), there were large changes to existing systems to support Google+, and the company made it quite clear it thought that social was the direction to go and that Google+ was going to be an enormous product.
I and a lot of other googlers were really confused by all of this because at the time we were advocating that Google put more effort into its nascent cloud business (often to get the reply "but we already have appengine" or "cloud isn't as profitable as ads") and that social, while getting a lot of attention, wasn't really a good business for google to be in (with a few exceptions like Orkut and Youtube, Google's attempts at social have been pretty uninspired).
There were even books written at the time that said Google looked lazy and slow and that Meta was going to eat their lunch. But shortly after Google+ tanked, Google really began to focus on Cloud (in a way that pissed off a lot of Googlers in the same way Google+ did- by taking resources and attention from other projects). Now, Meta looks like its going to have a challenging future while Google is on to achieving what Larry Page originally intended: a reliable revenue stream that is reinvested into development of true AI.
Wait until Apple's ChromeBook competitor shows up to eat their lunch just like switching to another proprietary stack with no dev ecosystem will die out. Sure they'll go after big ticket accounts, also take a guess at what else gets sanctioned next.
It's not though. Chromecast, g suite legacy, podcast, music, url shortener,... These weren't small products.
Chromecast is "gone" because it bridged the gap of dumb tvs needing streaming capabilities. Now almost every tv sold has some kind of smart feature or can stream natively so Chromecast aren't needed.
chromecast is alive, podcast, music were migrated to youtube app, url shortener is not core business and just side hustle for google. Not familiar with g suite legacy.
Google Hangouts wasn't small. Google+ was big and supposedly "the future" and is the canonical example of a huge misallocation of resources.
Google will have no problem discontinuing Google "AI" if they finally notice that people want a computer to shut up rather than talk at them.
> Google+ was big
how you define big? My understanding they failed to compete with facebook, and decided to redirect resources somewhere else.
At the time Google+ was started and shortly after, leadership (larry page at that time) focused the attention of the company on it. There was a social bonus (that you'd get if you integrated your product), there were large changes to existing systems to support Google+, and the company made it quite clear it thought that social was the direction to go and that Google+ was going to be an enormous product.
I and a lot of other googlers were really confused by all of this because at the time we were advocating that Google put more effort into its nascent cloud business (often to get the reply "but we already have appengine" or "cloud isn't as profitable as ads") and that social, while getting a lot of attention, wasn't really a good business for google to be in (with a few exceptions like Orkut and Youtube, Google's attempts at social have been pretty uninspired).
There were even books written at the time that said Google looked lazy and slow and that Meta was going to eat their lunch. But shortly after Google+ tanked, Google really began to focus on Cloud (in a way that pissed off a lot of Googlers in the same way Google+ did- by taking resources and attention from other projects). Now, Meta looks like its going to have a challenging future while Google is on to achieving what Larry Page originally intended: a reliable revenue stream that is reinvested into development of true AI.
Google completely fumbled Google+ by doing a slow invite only launch.
The hype when it was first coming to market was intense. But then nobody could get access because they heavily restricted sign ups.
By the time it was in "open beta" (IIRC like 6-7 mos later), the hype had long died and nobody cared about it anymore.
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They put a lot of effort into it, but it never had much usage.
Orkut was HUGE in Brazil.
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Wait until Apple's ChromeBook competitor shows up to eat their lunch just like switching to another proprietary stack with no dev ecosystem will die out. Sure they'll go after big ticket accounts, also take a guess at what else gets sanctioned next.
Isn't an iPad with a keyboard or the air essentially a Chromebook competitor?
The only lunch that will be eaten is Apple's own, since it would probably cannibalize their own sales of the MacBook air