> it could have been very successful, with millions of happy users, and Google still would have shut it down
Weeps in Google Play Music and Hangouts.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by throw10920 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:41PM
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jedberg said "AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB)" - emphasis on AWS, not Amazon as a whole. Big difference when you're talking about developer services, as opposed to end-user services.
Now, it's a perfectly valid point that Stadia is a consumer service, like Drive - but in a thread where there are discussions about developer services (GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by nemothekid on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:25PM
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>(GCP, for instance), making the distinction is important.
The distinction is meaningless in that case because GCP hasn't sunset any services either.
GCP did shut down IoT Core. Only one I know of, though.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by throw10920 on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:18AM
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Google has shutdown many developer-facing services, no?
> Reader is the posterboy for this; a service probably used happily by millions (or tens of millions) that had the plug pulled.
I feel like there's a whole generation of people who are now in senior decision-making roles who are still bitter about Reader. Killing that product, specifically, is likely costing billions per year in GCP revenue.
The fear with Stadia wasn't that Google may just shut it down, it's that it could have been very successful, with millions of happy users, and Google still would have shut it down. That's what separates Google from other companies.