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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by KMnO4 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:18AM (#21614209)
Think about how many Google products have lasted much longer than four year: Search, Maps, Gmail, Drive, AdWords, etc. This skews the average.

What would be more helpful is a median, or percentiles (eg 75% of Google products only last X years, 25% last Y months). I imagine that would be much more representative of Google’s fail-fast experimentations.

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Re:Average product lifespan of Google products before it kil... by cookie_monsta on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:02AM (#21628650)
FTA: The average lifespan of a discontinued Google product is 4 years and 1 month.

"Living" products aren't skewing anything

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