Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse
by giarc on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:43AM
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I think people love to look at the products they've discontinued, and they have discontinued a lot, but they fail to point out all the products that have stuck around. I think it's likely a result of a company trying a lot of things rather than a company that can't focus like the author implies. People don't talk about Facebooks failed products like email, dating, phone, beacon, portal etc.
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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse
by evad3r on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:51PM
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Is that likely due to a lot of those niche Facebook products simply launching to very little hype? Or simply only launching to a very select audience for essentially testing purposes?
I remember hype around the Facebook Phone and Facebook Email, but that's about it really. Email didn't really feel like a death either as the rest of Messenger continued to evolve to what it became today.