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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by darrmit on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:40AM (#19758651)
This seems to be common with the product teams I’ve interfaced with. Good intentions, but bad prioritization and little incentive to do anything other than cater to the big revenue drivers.
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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by jrockway on Friday April 26, 2019 @12:30PM (#19759252)
Why would you start a for-profit company to not focus on "big revenue drivers"?
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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by newsoul2019 on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:54PM (#19760133)
If you are a for-profit company, why would you kill off business lines that are "only" making you $10-$50 million per year?
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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by TheHegemon on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:36PM (#19761069)
Most likely due to opportunity cost. Your resources and effort would be better spent elsewhere.
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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by touristtam on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:48AM (#19777228)
Immediate profit and cost saving might hide something more valuable to a business in the long run: reputation.
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