So is your argument that people liked and cared about Stadia? Because right now it feels like a really odd double standard. Go read through that canonical "Killed by Google" list. How many of those products were more popular than Windows phone / had users be more invested in it / etc? Be honest, it's a handful. Most of them you hadn't even heard of.
It feels like you have a double standard at play here, and are giving both Microsoft and Amazon a free pass on their abattoirs of dead products by various excuses, and totally ignoring that those same excuses would apply to Google's.
And windows phone still got updates for over 2 years even after the shutdown, despite the fact it had been semi dead for years before then.
10% of Europeans cared, but it wasn't enough.
In terms of market share, Windows phone was a few percent, but that's still millions of phones.
Silverlight may have a replacement, but that doesn't help the devs who sunk their time developing with it. Same for people writing extensions for and debugging compatibility with Edge.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by 5560675260 on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:33AM
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What's the replacement for Silverlight? Or do you mean it had replacement in a sense that nothing stops devs from going back to JS?
The difference is Google shuts down services people actually like and use simply because they aren't profitable enough