Every company discontinues products. It's part of the normal business cycle.

Google is a bit different than most companies. Every product they create is devised to deliver advertising. If it doesn't generate enough ad revenue, it's discontinued.


>Every discontinued product will deurinate the users who loved it, proportionally to time and money they invested in it. A proper comparison would require knowing how much money and time, times the number of users, was it for each product.
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>As far as the Google's apps got abandoned, the effect on me was about zero, I wasn't using them much. And sure didn't pay anything to them. M$, OTOH...