Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
by slg on Monday May 20, 2013 @07:07PM
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Not that I disagree with your basic premise but I wonder why some companies get away with this type of thing and others don't. Your example of Apple is an obvious one but they have plenty of "failures" on their hands as well. Whether it is something that is dead on arrival like Ping or the company letting one of its old marquee products die a slow death like the MacPro or iPod classic, Apple seems to be able to brush off these issues like no one else.
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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:38PM
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The services Apple kills are usually rubbish. Ping, Mobile Me, those iPod speakers. Google is killing things that are actually good. I think that is where the Reader backlash came from. Reader was good even if the relative popularity was low.
Hardware is kind of a different thing. The iPod was pretty nice. But now I want a shinier iPod with more features. Production of the Classic just has to match demand from those with niche uses for it. So a slow death makes sense?
Not sure what the situation is with the MacPro...
Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
by jfb on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:14PM
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I think it's different when there're concrete numbers that the company can use to inform their decisions. Apple only does profitable things; if they kill a product, it's because it's no longer making them enough money.