atx_californian t1_j5ht6av wrote on January 23, 2023 at 2:27 AM

Reply to comment by Riptide360 in Area 120, Google's in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs by Last-Caterpillar-112

This website doesn't have the most accurate take. Google also has a history of rolling tech they deprecate into existing products. They might "kill" a lot of products, but the tech behind them is often alive and well many years after the product is dead.

Inquisitive_idiot t1_j5hzstu wrote on January 23, 2023 at 3:14 AM

That doesn’t make the repeated sunsetting of so many consumer-facing services any less painful.

That they sunset popular beta services isn’t unique to them but at this point it’s very hard to commit to their consumer facing services for fam/friend comms.

I’m coming off as an old man here 😅 but there needs to be a modicum of predictably to comms and they keep turning over the table. 😓