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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by dodobirdlord on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:51AM (#21822482)
> Google's well documented and long history of killing products

How long will this tired meme continue to have legs for? Sheesh. Google is not going to shutter GCP right after spending billions of dollars on datacenters and fiber cables. The fact that HN is even entertaining the concept is embarrassing and speaks volumes about fall in the quality of discussion.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by stingraycharles on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:09AM (#21822582)
What you’re describing is actually the sunken cost fallacy. It’s entirely reasonable to assume Google execs treat the investments as sunken costs that cannot be recovered with GCP, because they rationally should.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by dodobirdlord on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:00AM (#21822810)
Counterpoint, rational Google execs can't keep their jobs after spending 7 years sinking $Bs/year into unrecoverable investments in a product they eventually shutter. Google+ didn't require new physical infrastructure, and the other "Google kills xyz" stories are about small fry stuff.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by ric2b on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:12AM (#21824973)
Countercounterpoint, rational Google execs _definitely_ can't keep their jobs after spending 7 years sinking $Bs/year into unrecoverable investments in a product they eventually keep alive spending yet more $Bs/year.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:44AM (#21823000)
The 'small fry stuff' runs in the 100's of projects and that adds up, and not all of them are really small fry either.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by majormjr on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:28PM (#21827146)
Google spent quite a bit of money to run fibre in Louisville and then just abandoned the half buried cables. This kind of thing isn't unexpected for Google.
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