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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by hvidgaard on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:13AM (#21822601)
On the other hand the, in comparison tiny, cost that Google Reader and other was in the budget, would have given Google so much good will. It was in other words cheap positive PR.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by ageofwant on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:27AM (#21823555)
Killing Reader was massive strategic blunder, which in fairness to Google was probably not obvious to see at the time. But then to repeat that with Maps API,Google+, Sketchup and Wave (perhaps wave was first) just cemented Google's untrustworthy reputation.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by Applejinx on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:54AM (#21823694)
Sketchup?? Huh. Glad I didn't get into it, then. This is the first time I've heard that, and I thought I was up to speed with the stuff Google dropped.
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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by itronitron on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @06:28AM (#21823849)
SketchUp was acquired from Google by Trimble in 2012 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp
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