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VPN by Google One shuts down (9to5google.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Google One was a pretty sweet deal on paper.

But unfortunately, Google's superpower of making really cool things and then killing it off continues to exist.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (7 children)

half-arsing a product, people are hesitant to try it, due to other killed off products, google kills product. repeat

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

And the more they kill the more the reputation grows

Like when stadia was announced my friends and I took bets on how long it would last or if any stadia exclusive games would ever get to launch

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly yeah that probably would have been the case

But if they were open about it then it probably would have gone over poorly with the shareholders and stock value by "openly planning to fail"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.

Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.