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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by chippiewill on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:03PM (#25270593)
What Google heard is: buy discord, glue it into everything and then shut it all down after 2 years.
Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by xapata on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:59PM (#25271192)
I'm imagining a meeting a few years back, at Google:

"Ok, you know our motto, 'Don't be Evil.'?"

Heads nod.

"What if ... what if ... what if we simplify that?"

"How so?"

"Just cut off the first word, 'Be Evil.' Simple, elegant."

"I like it!"

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Jokes aside, I think Google does a pretty good job of keeping the major products steady. Our little cohort on HN isn't a great sample for determining what "major" is.

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by gertlex on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:22PM (#25272579)
Seems to me that either "Hangouts" (or whatever it's been most recently renamed to) is "major," and so many might argue it proves you false regarding "steady," OR it's not major, and discord would thus not be major and likewise not be kept "steady".
Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by xapata on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:12AM (#25274248)
That's a fair assessment.
Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by slenk on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:09PM (#25272505)
Google Play Music, Hangouts, AngularJS, Works with Nest API....

They've killed off a lot of buds, but they've also killed some great products.

https://killedbygoogle.com/