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It just dawned on me that Netflix is behaving exactly like Google: https://killedbygoogle.com/. Many of their shows do not survive past season one, so people no longer follow new shows for fear that they will be canceled. Similarly, many people do not trust new Google services for fear that they will be canceled.

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Google doesn't kill services quickly, they kill longstanding services that didn't gain sufficient traction in their eyes, even if they are well loved by many.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago

They killed the Tenor API which was very popular and the only reason why people still used Tenor was:

  1. everyone used it already
  2. discord uses it

They will for sure kill tenor itselt in a year or 2 because everyone stopped using it

[–] eleefece@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I still miss Google Reader and G+, yes, I did like G+

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Used to.

Now they just don't make anything. They continually twist the screws on what they already have.

Last new Google product I can remember is Stadia.

[–] razen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Anti-gravity maybe is the latest product they made

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago

They make dystopia. It's very popular.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Kind of like Netflix.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

It’s the same thing with Aldi. If it’s not popular enough, it’s just wasting shelf space and needs to go.