

He gives Google an out by noting that Google experiments a lot, which naturally leads to failures. As Matt Rickard, a former Google software engineer, observed last month, "Google's reputation for discontinuing products is unmatched." Google is just infamous as a serial killer of products. That its executives and managers are incentivized to launch products, and not so much for maintaining them, generally speaking, fuels this whole situation.

If Google keeps this up, it will never be able to shake off its reputation for being too willing to throw its products under the bus. Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams.Why make games for Linux if they don't sell? Because the nerds are just grateful to get something that works.Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks.Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon.That was about when we had predicted Google would discontinue Stadia – we gave it two years to live from its March 2019 launch.
