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This, Google Wave, Tilt Brush (and more recently Blocks). And probably others I've forgotten.

This really does help mitigate the damage done by "Killed by Google" and people are genuinely grateful (personally in my case).

But even better would be to fix the dysfunctional internal dynamics that cause this syndrome in what appears to be disproportionally more frequently compared to other corporations.

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That's what happens when you don't have to play by the rules of reality. Googles monopoly allows them to act like this. It's unfair and generally bad for everyone involved. Thankfully it seems that that era is finally going to end

> It's unfair and generally bad for everyone involved.

The solution is simple - don't hop on Google's new products (there's a risk with the older ones as well, albeit smaller). It's just not worth it to invest your money and time with such a significant risk of it getting killed (and its general half-assedness). There are usually alternatives.

Sorry, what? Depreciating a product has never been illegal in America. Consumer protections are an afterthought, and that applies to Google as much as it applies to Apple and Microsoft. You aren't owed shit.

The rules of reality are written the moment you click "agree" on the EULA. Like the other comment says; the only way to win is to refuse buying things you don't own. Otherwise you're just a sucker who has a hard time living down their mistakes.

Inbox is the one that still stings for me. I'm paying some silly amount for Superhuman which is almost there, but.. nothing is as good as Inbox was.

In case anyone would like a more complete list of products Google has killed, here's a handy website to mourn your favorite dead product:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

RIP Google Wave... I had such high hopes when it was first released... :'(

In case I was unclear - I was aiming for the list of "unkilled by Google". Shorter but more interesting.

Eh, I take a much more "gloves off" approach to this mentality. If you bought an Airport thinking that it would be your forever router, you're a moron. Same goes for buying an eero, or Google Home, or even an iPad at this point. You don't own this hardware, you control nothing about it. The idea that products live forever is a bedtime story we tell ourselves, an utter fairytale of the software industry.

Everyone kills software products. The problem is our attitude of entitlement towards things we sign an EULA to use. You "own" TikTok on the App Store? Pssh, please. You don't even own the software runtime you use TikTok with.

I think you're rather missing the specific point in the process of making a much broader one.

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