mint@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agoGoogle is shutting down its Jamboard whiteboarding appwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down10
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minus-squareBig P@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·9 months agoI swear Google operates more like a startup incubator at times, creating almost entirely seperate companies within itsself that are just expected to handle everything and then when it doesn’t work they shut them down
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoAnd if it does work, they shut it down anyway, rebuild the product as something YouTube-branded and then abandon it anyway.
minus-squarehascat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoWasn’t that the whole point of the creation of Alphabet? That they’d have different business units with their own products?
I swear Google operates more like a startup incubator at times, creating almost entirely seperate companies within itsself that are just expected to handle everything and then when it doesn’t work they shut them down
And if it does work, they shut it down anyway, rebuild the product as something YouTube-branded and then abandon it anyway.
Wasn’t that the whole point of the creation of Alphabet? That they’d have different business units with their own products?