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At this point, why is anyone relying on Google APIs (or even GCP!) for serious work? It feels like Google is contempt with Search, Ads and Android.

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Google Poly looks like a fun experiment that unfortunately didn't pan out to their expectations. Google APIs/GCP have paying users that businesses depend on. It wouldn't be fair to have them in the same room.

It’s one of the main features of the $20 tiltbrush app. People ARE paying for it.

I was about to ask if TiltBrush relied on this. Thanks for confirming. It's hard to buy anything made by Google that hasn't been around for close to a decade, unless you don't care whether or not that product stays around.

Now that is a Freudian slip!

Is that a Freudian slip, DALE?!

What's really scary is that people rely on golang ignoring that it is entirely corporate-driven.

(Go ahead and downvote me a ton)

I mean, it's a language and open source. If the community really hates the direction Google takes it, they can fork it and support whatever features they want.

Every language in widespread use today is either corporate driven or corporate sponsored.

PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Swift, Obj-C, Rust…

Welcome to capitalism, friend.

I mean, that's what you get when the internal metrics are skewed towards shipping new products, paying no attention to maintaining or improving existing ones.

> or even GCP

At least you're paying for GCP.

And they aren't making a profit on it. I think it will last a bit longer though - shutting down GCP would mean admitting a huge defeat.

Beyond ML, can GCP even compete? They will never be able to catch up to AWS, and Azure is growing super fast.

Tbh, they are the most user friendly of the three platforms I guess, so they could compete on that. But I doubt Google will realize that.

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