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Re:Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfol... by protomyth on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:32PM (#17991150)
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it?

Both. They expanded into an area and killed the competition then killed their product and left a void. See Google Reader for the life cycle.

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Re:Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfol... by zapita on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:21PM (#17991529)
Yes, exactly. Those are not contradictory. If anything, it makes it more obvious why unchecked Big Tech expansion into every market, subsidized by their core monopolies, is a bad thing for consumers in the long run.
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Re:Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfol... by beaner on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:07AM (#18003135)
And now readers still aren't popular... There is no big replacement that people are using. Google didn't kill the category, it was already dead.
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