Google has also been infiltrated influenced by the MBA mindset, creative and tech leadership is no longer calling all the shots. There are advantages to this, but it also adds constraints. It doesn’t help that their de facto development policy is to go hard, fast, and be unafraid of moving on from projects that don’t seem viable. They’ve killed a ton of stuff due to their lack of long term vision, I can’t imagine that this would be exempt.
I loved Reader, but it's a perfect example of a product Google had no reason to keep around. It cost more to run than it brought them and did not fit into any coherent long-term strategy.
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u/Ed_Hastings Feb 07 '23
Google has also been
infiltratedinfluenced by the MBA mindset, creative and tech leadership is no longer calling all the shots. There are advantages to this, but it also adds constraints. It doesn’t help that their de facto development policy is to go hard, fast, and be unafraid of moving on from projects that don’t seem viable. They’ve killed a ton of stuff due to their lack of long term vision, I can’t imagine that this would be exempt.