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If I ever get to interview a Google Cloud exec, I have one question:
"Why should we trust Google Cloud to stick around? After all, you killed Reader, Plus, Inbox..."
*seven minutes elapse*
"...Allo, Glass--excuse me, don't interrupt. I'm not done. iGoogle, Video, and Buzz?"
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That said, if anyone can fix this it’s Thomas Kurian. I believe in what he’s saying.
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“Wow you must hate Google.”
No. I’ve fallen in love with Google products, evangelized the shit out of them to my friends and family, and then looked like a complete asshole when they ripped them away.
THAT is the problem.
“Fool me once…”
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2 obvious issues with that:
1) most everyone will need features from both versions, but can't get them all in one of the two
2) lifetime of those 2 smaller products will be much shorter
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Sometimes I wonder … if we went back in time, would we find that all your Google Cloud angst was spurned by never getting an invite to Orkut?
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Do they not appear to be a serious enough about their cloud offerings? We’re basing this off of a bunch of incubator projects that either go away or get rolled into a new product. Gotcha!
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Google Plus was an all-company effort. Everyone had compensation tied to it, it was massively promoted, and they talked about it more than they do GCP.
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I did sourcing in automotive so lifetime supply was real concern for semiconductors, just think what Intel has canned too. I'm immune to Google hype and watch users instead. They really need to work on communities & listening plus have honest story of product devt timelines.
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Oh, sneaky. I remember recently stumbling across iGoogle again. However, there is what appears to be a phishing site as the first search result.
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Google is definitely doing themselves a huge disservice in terms of perception (really comically). That said, I can't actually think of a GCP product that has been discontinued off the top of my head.
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yeah because the whole service has been around less time than some of those were, with fewer users
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I think it will stick around if only because they are really just commercializing thier internal platform (much like how AWS started) which makes the risk much lower than one would assume. Thats also why they back/push Anthos/K8S so much: it's thier proven model.
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K8s is a reimplementation of bits of their internal stack. Afaik there is no re-use between GCP, k8s and production there.
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Repaying 2x cumulative spend if a GA product is killed with < 3 years notice (or similar) would:
a) credibly signal commitment
b) be free, if marketing=reality
c) force you to come up with new jokes
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You know you don't have to even run this account any more, right? Just auto respond to the GCP Twitter handle with "... Yeah but what about reader?"
Fwow, have spoken to >1k+ customers while at GCP and Azure, and precisely zero brought up this about GCP except as a joke.
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So are you worried about Azure?
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Not in the same way. Microsoft has 40 years of experience in dealing with enterprises; they very clearly could teach a masterclass in assuaging exec concerns.
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On the other hand at least all the engineers today are working on lift and shift as a service. And not distracted by Reader, Plus, Inbox ......
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Tangent? It's the most relevant tweet I've ever seen from you!
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I think GC is the platform on which all the other active or discontinued stuff is built upon. They may kill upper layer products (SaaS), but not the platform. If i remember correctly, AWS also started as a product-isation of the platform they used for the commerce platform.
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GC has little to nothing to do with how they operate other consumer-facing services.
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They're working internally to progressively use it for their own purpose. They've massively invested and progressed in the past few years. (assuming you weren't being sarcastic)
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Google Cloud makes it super easy to deploy and then destroy new services on a whim. It will never go away!
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.....annnnnd now it’s getting deprecated next week. Good. Job.
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The positioning from Diane Greene was that once Google’s enterprise group went beta, they were committed and would not kill it, unlike on the consumer side. I do find the 
site amusing: killedbygoogle.com
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Definitely - nobody ever asks that question. It's very fair to assume that we will treat enterprise with the same decision criteria other groups might use for consumer products. Also, this is a good thing to grill Google on because no other companies sunset consumer products.
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Huh, a condescending reply from a Google employee. You never see one of those…
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I assume that the people who don’t trust GCP to stick around probably also does not have a gmail account.
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This really puts the whole "use terraform so you can switch platforms easily" argument into perspective.
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Have you asked VMware why they killed so many so called cloud products with no viable alternative or upgrade path? LIfecycle Manager, Stage Manager, Service Manager, Request Manager, Lab Manager, vCloud Director (for Enterprise, before bringing it back years later).
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