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I need something like this, but I'm not willing to bet on a google product that will get shut down in a year. It's not worth it, I'd rather do a little extra work to build something custom that will exist as long as I need it.

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Is this post going to get made for literally everything that Google launches?

Without a doubt. I've gone one step further and stopped being friendly to my coworkers in case they change jobs and I don't see them again.

If it's a web based product, yes. The fact that it's google only makes this concern marginally appeased.

I'm no Tableau fan at all, but the fact that it's a native app removes this doubt at least.

How is that different than working with a product from another company? Companies and products disappear with regularity. I don't think Google is more prone to it.

AWS SimpleDB. DynamoDB replaced it years ago but AWS keeps it running just for past customers

Perhaps there are enough users that the economics are different. Also, that's one of the more annoying things about AWS for a new user -- an overwhelming variety of services.

This is how I feel. So many things you spend time on with google get tanked. Bleh.

What have they shot down recently? I hadn't heard of any of their products getting the axe in several years...

It's not just the apps that Google explicitly "axes", there are also the ones that Google just stops paying attention to and they fade into nothingness. Google Voice comes to mind.

My company recently switched to Google suite of apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, etc) and soon after was given the heads up that we should expect minimal support/updated to Hangouts since Google is shifting their online chat efforts into Allo and Duo.

Heads up from Google? They are actually investing into hangouts https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-goes-after-slack-an...

Investing in Hangouts or making even more communication apps? Now there will be Allo, Duo, Chat, Meet, and of course Hangouts.

For Google voice, they redid the UI for mobile and web back in January 2017 (completely new look). So I wouldn't say voice is dying.

As for hangouts, they already announced the replacement for this. Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Meet is already out there and Chat is in closed beta.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products