Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by obviouslynotme on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:40PM
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People only put up with GCP because AWS is owned by Amazon, a notoriously ruthless company. AWS is better from the perspectives of API stability, customer support, and third party support, aka the primary things cloud customers care about. Now that Microsoft has Azure, they are going to crush GCP into the ground and there is nothing Google can do to stop it even though Google invented most modern cloud technology.
Azure has been around for > 10 years. If they’re planning on crushing GCP then they’re taking their sweet time about it.
Sure, but they have only really been on the radar of traditional IT teams for the last 3 or so years.
Why should anybody at Azure care more than anybody at Google? Both are comfortable.
People at companies like this are only provoked to action by what affects company revenue, whether increasing it or preventing loss. And hardly anything can be demonstrated to have direct effect on revenue. (Certainly, unhappy users don't, as Microsoft was first to discover.)
Haha what a joke. First, Azure is around as long as GCP. As someone in tech I can tell you that GCP and AWS are used everywhere and no one is talking about Azure. I think their fast growth as reported in their earnings is due to their office cloud services and not "core" cloud services.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by chestervonwinch on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:13AM
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> As someone in tech ...
... you do realize that goes for 99% of people posting here? In my biased experience in consulting for ~4 years, the distribution is more like 80/10/10 for AWS/GCP/Azure.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by blue_cookeh on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:10AM
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Yet anecdotally I see an _awful_ lot of Azure use in traditional corporate IT teams looking to move away from onprem...
Their cloud is better, or at least I like their interface better, but how do you know they won't just shut it off? Azure or Amazon are safer choices.
they won't, it makes a lot of money, it's b2b, etc.
gcp has a lot of business continuity guarantees.
still, I don't recommend them. because google acts like a dangerous savant at this point.
I’m not, it’s the other problem after the promo issue. Google is an engineering only company, if you aren’t an engineer you’re second class. So engineers see a cool problem like live migration and solve that. But they do an awful job at building a product customers want(product managers), and supporting(customer support, marketing) that.
If you look at stadia, they built the cool streaming platform, but failed to actually sell it.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by markdestouches on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:44AM
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Wasn't stadia absolutely dreadful at release with lags, bugs, stutter and shutdowns?
But it's difficult to set up a business when your baseline is "Google Ads".
I thought they have it with Cloud. I'm still puzzled how it went wrong.