Re:Why GitHub Won
by chrisandchris on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:18PM
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That is totally fine, but Google is a case where they go into new business units and fairly often kill those units quite soon.
It's not like they're doing cereals and now they're doing other cereals, so you can fall back to their previous cereals. You always have to find a new supplier, or then just start buying bread.
Yeah, there are so many examples. It's one of the reasons I was unwilling to jump on board Google Stadia... I kept thinking "let's wait and see how it does". Particularly since you had to buy non-transferable game licenses.
And, of course, they shut it down. At this point, Google is going to have to be in a space for at least 5 years and clearly be highly successful before I would even think about using them.
Re:Why GitHub Won
by scarface_74 on Monday September 09, 2024 @07:13PM
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And I worked at AWS Professional Services and sat in on sales calls all of time where one of our talking points was “a company couldn’t trust Google to not to abandon a service they were going to be dependent on”.
Was that partially FUD? Probably. But there were plenty of services sales could point to.
If you expect you team to just go-go-go, you might something in the short term but you'll fail miserably in long-term.