Google just isn't a serious services vendor. They're infected by some MBA virus where they attended a class in biz school that said you focus on your core competency and divest of everything non-core. Of course this is often nonsense because it turns out some of the non-core things were required in order to have the core products.

Reminds me of an episode long ago when I worked in hardware design: someone in biz planning completed their MBA and made a spreadsheet ranking all our SKUs by profitability. They recommended shit-canning several products, including the custom cables required to plug in our most profitable product.