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Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by petre on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:28AM (#34622484)
So Google Feed, Chat, Hangouts, social networks are out because they're highly likely to get killed.
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by makeitdouble on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:38AM (#34622540)
It's so obvious for Google.

And that's probably part of what's happening at Apple as well ? We've seen important, but not quite groundbreaking products get left for dead, and eventually killed when at Apple's size it probably wasn't that problematic to keep them alive. I'm thinking about their network router lineup for instance. Or how nobody cares enough to make a Calculator app for the iPad.

Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by asmor on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:15AM (#34623683)
> Or how nobody cares enough to make a Calculator app for the iPad.

Supposedly Steve Jobs hated every iteration of the calculator on the first iPad, so they just didn't ship it at all. Might just be tradition at Apple to not touch that topic.

Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records by vineyardmike on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:38AM (#34623844)
I think its the opposite actually.

Google pays over $300k a year for many of their engineers, and Apple pays quite well too. Regardless of how easy that calculator app is, it'll take a team of people to build, and that team is expensive, like millions of dollars expensive, and it'll never be worth it.