I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

    • nlm
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      291 year ago

      Yeah, this is basically their business model/modus operandi

    • Whimseymimple
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      161 year ago

      This was a trip back in time, seeing things like Meebo and Picasa that G purchased and killed off. 😕

      • (っ◔◡◔)っ
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        111 year ago

        That’s just the nature of corporate pirates, they loot and plunder what they can use and integrate into their own products then scuttle the rest

        • Whimseymimple
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          61 year ago

          Most often not even taking the things that made the plundered product great in the first place, unfortunately.

          • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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            81 year ago

            Most times companies do acquisitions just because they want to get a patent, or just hire the dev team with specific skills. The product for them was worthless from the beginning,

    • @SenorBolsa@beehaw.org
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      To be slightly fair a decent number of those are redundant or were successfully merged into other projects while others were clearly very experimental in nature.

      • @Wizard@lemmy.dustybeer.com
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        131 year ago

        This product was also sold, not deleted. So to be a bit pedantic, it doesn’t belong there. People are acting like this has died entirely or they aren’t able to transfer their domains. It’s not the end of the world.

        But I guess people can feel good posting “Don’t be evil I guess” over and over again (as has been posted in all the threads about this numerous times) or being all snooty about how they’ve “warned people forever” not to use any Google service ever.