And this is why we all should have shouted louder when Google set this precedent five years ago. This is going to become the status quo.

If Google can do it why can’t we?

It's absolutely amazing how some people can find new ways to blame Google for something they had nothing to do with. Just Incredible. Additionally, if it had not been for the money given to Mozilla by Google the development of Firefox would have severely been in decline and possibly abandoned.

>And this is why we all should have shouted louder when Google set this precedent five years ago.

Do you also shout loud when Microsoft set a precedent for shutting down products and services? Of course you don't. You just confine your rage to Google. Let's have a look at all of the products and services Microsoft has cancelled:

https://pastebin.com/PMQwd8Q0

Let that sink in next time you do a drive by on a Google related topic and post one of those lame "I wonder when it will be cancelled" worthless posts.

Microsoft is the anti-example. They discontinue something and then support it for years. Sometimes way longer than they should.

I took it to include the EEE era, probably because the question doesn’t track unless you do.

Mixer sends its regards...

Your argument would be stronger if that list was actually products and services. Listing every MS store ever closed and every platform or every version of a no-longer-sold product line makes it meaningless.

I mean, that list has MS-DOS. To which we still have backwards compatibility. And it's twice as old as Google.

Also, tone.

> Do you also shout loud when Microsoft set a precedent for shutting down products and services?

Relentlessly. If you get me talking about MS you won’t be able to get me to shut up.

They’re a bully who was never broken and that just invites more bullies.

Whatever tiny power I have to prevent another Microsoft from ever happening again, I will happily use it, and proactively. I think you’ll find that some of the “unfair” venom FB, Google and Amazon get is from people who feel the same way. Take them down a notch while they’re still in arm’s reach.

Boy that list brings back memories. Front page, bob, zune...

I think perhaps the answer is that you shouldn't. You are clearly not early adopter material. So don't early adopt.

this question is why i haven't engaged with any new Mozilla product in years. They just KEEP making cool things that you want to integrate into your workflows and then killing them.

Are you using Chrome? If so https://killedbygoogle.com/. Google is guilty of the same.

And so if Microsoft. https://pastebin.com/PMQwd8Q0

Most of these are offline software programs that you can continue to use indefinitely, or physical buildings that are very expensive to run.

Nokia has to be the biggest one.

Not long ago I worked in a lab that was still using Microsoft Windows 95 for one workstation that was a host for a microscope that had a very expensive license tied to that specific set of hardware.

The system has worked great for decades. Data is automatically gathered via a hardware datalogger accessory that has a ethernet interface. Is there any google product with anything close to that useful lifespan?

that's why I came to rely only on things

a) I pay for. An amount of /money/, both service and I can sustain with, or

b) I host myself.