dantheclammanGoogle AR/VR software lead quits, heavily criticizes company on way out
SJ_ZeroIf it isn’t search or video, Google always has one foot out the door.
I believe that one of the reasons the stadia failed is everybody knew about the Google graveyard and wasn’t willing to buy into an ecosystem destined to die.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is also something that would affect their ability to attract good talent. People want to feel like they’re working on something meaningful that’s going to stick around for a while. Putting years of your life into developing something for Google just to have it hit the Google graveyard has got to be deeply dissatisfying.
TitanLaGrangeYep, I don’t think badly of Google mostly because I don’t think of them at all. While I was deleting my Reddit account a decided I’d try moving off of big tech companies products as much as practical and even after almost 20 years with GMail as my primary mail host I just don’t have anything else left in their ecosystem. Over the years I’ve used a lot of their products, but they kept killing them off (Picasa, Google+, Code, Reader, various chat clients), so I’ve found mostly self-hosted alternatives.
I guess they’re still making money hand-over-fist so whatever they’re doing it must work for them, but none of it is useful for me.