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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by freetime2 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:45PM (#20118971)
Opportunity cost seems like the biggest reason. Why devote resources to a project that is merely profitable when they could be working in something that is hugely profitable instead?
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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by freewilly1040 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:47PM (#20120345)
Reasonable, but then why launch Inbox in the first place? The best email client possible is not going to displace Gmail on a billions of users scale.

It makes a lot more sense from a corporate gamesmanship perspective. I think the incentives of the typical Google employee (widely believed to heavily value launching new stuff) are not in sync with the company or its users.

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Re:This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips by erichocean on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:12AM (#20123374)
> why launch Inbox in the first place?

Google didn't launch it, it was a startup that Google acquired for the team, and then killed of Inbox as soon as they could.

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