Re:Google Kills Cloud Print
by Majromax on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:39PM
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As of this writing, that list contains about 270 items over about 35 years (from the first closure). The "Killed by Google" list contains 191 over 13 years.
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It would be interesting to know total lunched products to closed products ratio, pretty sure MS looks better in this aspect as well
Re:Google Kills Cloud Print
by tech-historian on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:52PM
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That would be an interesting analysis. Just keep in mind that "products" are nuanced; it's not always apples to apples. Both companies have some products that are free and some that cost lots of money. Some items are full blown enterprise applications, and some are just labs-style projects. All these different types of products are weighted the same in these lists.
But I don't necessarily think they have the same weight, so to speak. For example, the majority of products Google shut down were free, and the majority of Microsoft's were not. How should that be evaluated? I don't really know! It would be interesting to look at this.