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Google's constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
We are 91 days into the year, and so far, Google is racking up an unprecedented body count. If we just take the official shutdown dates that have already occurred in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.
Some of these product shutdowns have transition plans, and some of them (like Google+) represent Google completely abandoning a user base. The specifics aren't crucial, though. What matters is that every single one of these actions has a negative consequence for Google's brand, and the near-constant stream of shutdown announcements makes Google seem more unstable and untrustworthy than it has ever been. Yes, there was the one time Google killed Google Wave nine years ago or when it took Google Reader away six years ago, but things were never this bad.
For a while there has been a subset of people concerned about Google's privacy and antitrust issues, but now Google is eroding trust that its existing customers have in the company. That's a huge problem. Google has significantly harmed its brand over the last few months, and I'm not even sure the company realizes it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 03 2019, @06:52PM (3 children)
G+ was the last thing I jumped onboard with. It was pretty cool, and it *could have* set Facefook back, seriously. But - we are where we are today. And, I'm not likely to jump on any Google train in the future. Oh well - I don't like monopolistic companies anyway. No, Google isn't a real monopoly, but they do have monopolistic tendencies. I'll not help them to cross into real monopoly territory.
Given the choice between G+ and Facefook, I can't really say that one is much better than the other. But, at least Google never called us all "dumb fucks" for using their products. So, yeah, I still favor them over some of the competition.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 03 2019, @09:27PM (2 children)
Yet another thing Runaway doesn't know! I'll add it to the list.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @03:00AM (1 child)
A list? You're not writing a manifesto, are you? I'm asking for a fed, er, I mean a friend.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday April 04 2019, @06:18AM
Runaway is already on several Fed watch lists. I mean, he has admitted to driving a Trailblazer and seeing things on the side of the road! So, not a manifesto, more a codexies of a potential future manifesto that Runaway may write, about all the things he does not know, and how his prodigious ignorance has driven him to a nihilistic position of just killing a bunch of innocent people for no reason, which is the alt-right agenda. Funching alt-right nihilists! Thank goodness we have Walter Sobchak, who said, "Nah Donny, these men are nihilists, it's nothing to be afraid of." [youtube.com]
So, I am just waiting for the scene when Jesus grabs Runaway's 1911, which is very similar to Walter's 1911 Colt Automatic Pistola, and sticks it up his ass, and pulls the trigger, until it goes, "click". Then Runaway has, well, an epiphany, or an orgasm, I am not sure which. But, he is Runaway2056, the new, improved cyborg model of Faus News viewer, pre-programmed to run amok. Thus the listing on several lists, of the Runaway, of which he is not aware, since he has given away more than enough details for anyone to dox him, if they were so inclined. But I have always depended on the charity of Soylentils, and I grant the same to the deplorable, despicable, desriatic, demonable, detoxic, Runaway1956. He will die soon, and like the MDC, we will mourn him. But with less cause.