Everybody here knew it wasn't going to play out that way, so surely everybody in Google knew it too. Or should have known. Either they were lying, or were effectively brainwashed by the corporate environment (a real possibility.)

The company really did go from "hire like mad" to "oh shit cut stuff" seemingly overnight. It would not surprise me if Stadia was an easy way for some SVP to slash their budget to appease Finance.

That tweet was from two months ago, long after everyone saw the writing on the wall with respect to the economy. As another commenter responded, the first tweet in response to that was:

> When you inevitably do shut down in a couple of months could you please just release Bluetooth drivers for the controller first? It's a good controller and I'd like to be able to use it.

In other words, people didn't believe them from the get go. Whether it was an outright lie, or a George Constanza-esque "It's not a lie if YOU believe it" message, is pretty irrelevant. Everyone knew or should have known it was BS.

Many companies, especially publicly traded ones, do overt knee-jerk reactions when there are big stories of economic downturns.

I actually think it's an intentional behavior designed to show investors that they are being studious relative to economic conditions (aka, covering their asses to avoid shareholder suits).

Delusional thinking isn’t just for random people living under a bridge.

Also, orgs have multiple levels and various individuals in leadership who have their own plans that never quite perfectly align. Miscommunications happen, and corporations aren't a single entity.

This just gave me a flashback to everyone working for WeWork pre IPO

Nobody I knew there was willing to understand how all of Wall Street was making fun of them and the valuation attempt.

It is a really low-stakes prediction, for us to guess that Google is going to cancel a product. Internally I bet they had people making good-faith arguments in both directions.

Not a pay product though. How many pay products have they shut-down cold-turkey, with no new service/product to migrate to?

My point is less that we are more likely to be correct, and more that without seeing the sunk costs first hand it is easier to say "lol it is google they will cancel things!"

For sure people say that. They don't differentiate between pay and free google. It's just google.

So yea, the meme-machine will just dismiss it as 'lol it will be cancelled in a year because google'.

But Stadia might be 1 of 1 ..maybe 2 or 3 pay services they've ever cancelled.

It's likely that the person tweeting this believed it, because it's what they were told..

I'm going to bet most of the Stadia team found out at the same time as, or shortly before, everyone else.

Hmm, I suppose it's interesting to consider who lied in this instance. It was demonstrably false, but it seems possible the person tweeting it didn't know this at the time.

However someone at Google let that tweet go out with no intention of fulfilling that promise, that most definitely does constitute lying.

They really don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to abandoning products.

Most certainly not a lie. The person tweeting that was a member of the Stadia team. If they didn't believe Stadia is going to be fine, why wouldn't they jump ship earlier?