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As long as the legacy systems have billions of users. Otherwise they get shutdown once people run out of interest.

See https://killedbygoogle.com/

You might have missed it but the OP's comment was dripping in literal sarcasm. Google's track record for product management is poor.

> literal sarcasm

As opposed to the usual, figurative sarcasm. (Just kidding.)

“literal sarcasm” is using “literal” figuratively.

I initially thought it had to be the postings of an army of sycophantic bots. Need more coffee.

I like the moniker "elfing" applied to this form of sarcasm, as an opposite of "trolling".

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