all of those companies have also cancelled or killed products and services. you might say Google has killed more, but Google also starts more, so...

> but Google also starts more

Who cares how many they start? They could start a million products per year, and that would not change the fact that depending on a Google service involves considerable risk.

I'm not sure why you're working so hard to defend this hill, but it would seem your local minima is within a deep crater.

I'm in full agreement here, Google starts more products and kills more products. So that means... I'm less trusting that any google product is to survive. That was the original point made above.