Yup, they’re like me, but they actually finish them. But if I ever finish something, you can bet I’m not going to just throw it away a few years later.
The point is to use messaging apps as a data collection vector. Once they hit user saturation, they shut it down. That’s what all their product shutdowns are about: they run out of useful analytics.
Once the lead gets promoted for global impact, nobody else cares. There’s nobody to maintain it, there’s nobody to develop it. If you work on somebody else’s project it’s hard to claim you had global impact.
What we’re seeing is promotion culture as seen by products. Nobody’s getting promoted running the old thing.
This is a widespread problem in tech companies. Maintainers of existing code don’t get enough recognition. Often that work is more difficult than building new applications from scratch. But the person who builds a nice snappy prototype that can’t be scaled is hailed by management as a genius, while those who have to do the difficult work of developing it to a production ready state and maintaining it are seen as slow.
@ajsadauskas@technology I got burned when they axed Wave but axing their video conferencing apps on their video conferencing box is really next level. 🫠
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@ajsadauskas @technology Starting side projects and then abandoning them is the most relatable thing about Google.
Yup, they’re like me, but they actually finish them. But if I ever finish something, you can bet I’m not going to just throw it away a few years later.
Google Groups, according to a random internet stranger who claimed to work at Google - they use it internally and so won’t kill it.
Until someone invents a new platform
Apparently it would be a big_deal to change it
I would argue, Google isnt a stranger to axing a big project.
They used circles internally too, back when they were trying to push it.
https://i.imgur.com/AorXnID.png
BREAKING: Google yet again sells hardware that becomes e-waste 2 years later!
The point is to use messaging apps as a data collection vector. Once they hit user saturation, they shut it down. That’s what all their product shutdowns are about: they run out of useful analytics.
@ajsadauskas @technology At least Gmail is still working.
@ajsadauskas @technology Google lose interest in a project faster than a kitten with ADHD. Add it to the list.
Just, wow.
Once the lead gets promoted for global impact, nobody else cares. There’s nobody to maintain it, there’s nobody to develop it. If you work on somebody else’s project it’s hard to claim you had global impact.
What we’re seeing is promotion culture as seen by products. Nobody’s getting promoted running the old thing.
This is a widespread problem in tech companies. Maintainers of existing code don’t get enough recognition. Often that work is more difficult than building new applications from scratch. But the person who builds a nice snappy prototype that can’t be scaled is hailed by management as a genius, while those who have to do the difficult work of developing it to a production ready state and maintaining it are seen as slow.
I’m not bitter. Oh wait, I am bitter.
They’re probably going to replace it with Google Duo. Oh wait.
Maybe they’ll replace Google Meet with Google Meet again.
@ajsadauskas @technology I got burned when they axed Wave but axing their video conferencing apps on their video conferencing box is really next level. 🫠