Aaaaaand it's shut down

Would you rather have Big Tech sit on their cash and not innovate? Some of these ones would 100% fail, and that's the nature of doing business. Apple is trying something radical with Vision Pro. It isnt successful, but I'm glad they are trying it. Microsoft did something crazy with Windows Recall. Will I use it? Nope, I appreciate the risk taking.

When your friend comes upto you and says "We're starting a business", do you immediately go like "haha, you're gonna lose?"

My wish is folks on hacker news have a bit of humility about these kind of things.

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bigstrat2003 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> When your friend comes upto you and says "We're starting a business", do you immediately go like "haha, you're gonna lose?"

No, because my friend (presumably) doesn't have an extensive track record of failing in business. But Google does have an extensive track record of killing products for no good reason. Precedent matters, and at this point it's foolish to start using any Google product that you don't have to.

	▲	bitpush 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> killing products for no good reason To you. If you dont understand the reason, again, I encourage you to be humble and try to understand what is going on. Remember, all of these companies are operated by perfectly reasonable people.

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GrumpyGoblin 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a ridiculous reply. I'm not friends with Google. We're frenemies at best.

Google has zero reason to keep this effort going. It won't make them any significant money.

If I were a bettin' man, and I am, I'd say it's a promotion project for some developer or team who is going to abandon it as soon as they move on. Which is SOP for Google.