Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do...
by zapzupnz on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:22AM
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Google's been killing their products left, right, and centre long before this whole thing. Absolutely no link.
Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do...
by powerslacker on Saturday December 01, 2018 @05:31PM
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I hate when people just downvote posts that don't align with their politics.
Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do...
by zapzupnz on Saturday December 01, 2018 @05:45PM
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This wasn't downvoted because of a lack of political alignment; it was downvoted because there's absolutely no link.
The post implies a causal link, but there isn't even a correlational one; Google has been shuttering its own projects only a couple of years after launch for years, long before the current round of employee protests.
Interestingly, before 2017, very few (no?) public news of them employees walking out or protesting publicly @ Google. It's almost like Sergey going to the airport to protest opened the floodgates[6]. The Times They Are a-Changin' (or no good deed goes unpunished...).
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/read-google-employees-open-l... [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/01/google-em... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-... [4] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/google-employees-protest-tru... [5] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/07/542020041... [6] https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/28/14428262/google-sergey-br... [7] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/google-employees-s... [8] https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/01/sopa-blackou... [..] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/10/12/whoops-g...