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Comment by tdhoot | Hacker News Reader

Doesn’t repeating this trope on every Google related topic get old? We get it, they cancel projects. Hahaha?

I’d agree that it would have gotten old if this was an isolated past of Google but fact is that Google shuts downs products left and right even today, recently Google Inbox.

People will keep making fun of Google for this as long as Google keep throwing products at the wall that they don’t intend to keep supporting.

Googles inclination to deprecate products is common knowledge at this point. What value is added by restating the obvious in every Google related thread?

To make sure it won't stop being common knowledge.

It's an (admittedly somewhat low-value) homage to the classic Onion article.[0]

[0] https://www.theonion.com/133-dead-as-delta-cancels-flight-in...

Except, you know, this is Wing, a separate entity.

Besides. It almost sounds like many people would like them to stop releasing products all together. Market research is not yet at a point where you can predict if something will be 100% successful.

I think the problem here is with Google's definition of success - they're cancelling products with many millions of satisfied users.

I'm not saying I have a perfect solution that would satisfy everyone. But, in the case of Reader or Inbox, for example, I think that they could keep the business going with about a couple of cents from every user. I feel that a company with as much power as Google should really do more to stay on its users' good sides.

I think it's the beginning of a relevant discussion thread on any Google service. At this point it's such a significant problem with anything Google runs that we should be talking about it every time they launch something.

I thought it was funny, its just a joke? No need to be such a Debbie Downer

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