mint@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle is shutting down its Jamboard whiteboarding appwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up170
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minus-squareBig P@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year 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-up3·1 year 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-up3·1 year 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?