1. Google launches a new product, which gets promotions for everyone involved because launching new products is what the review and promotions process is optimized for.
2. Nobody maintains the product because that's not how you get promoted.
3. The product is discontinued.
Sometimes they'll have similar products that do similar things replace each other. So I wonder if anyone at Google secretly uses this site as a source of ideas for new products to try and launch.
https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft is not a fork, but it has many of the commits from https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
The earliest commits from fabianoriccardi include git messages like: > replacing "Google" with "Microsoft", removed PressCoverage
Anyway, great code recycling at least right? It's a fun thought that the author of killedbygoogle ultimately wrote most of the code on killed-by-microsoft.
Contributor summary: https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft/graph... https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/graphs/contribut...
I agree that it is cool to see how it's been reused. :)
"Just" is a severe understatement, especially because they switched to the monoculture.