Shutdowns
3 posts tagged with Shutdowns.
The Google killing field: a decade of buried services and what they teach us
Reader, Wave, Buzz, Inbox, Allo, Stadia, Domains, Jamboard. Google has shipped — and quietly killed — a staggering number of consumer products. Looking at the pattern reveals which signals to read before you invest in any cloud-only tool.
Permanently shut down or just down right now? A 10-minute diagnosis
A site won't load. Is it a five-minute hiccup, an outage that ends today, or has the service quietly been dead for two years? The diagnostic isn't intuition — it's six concrete signals, in priority order. Here is the workflow we run.
When a service shuts down, what actually happens to your data?
Pocket, Skype, Stadia, and Google Reader followed wildly different playbooks. Some refunded everything. Some preserved data for years in an archive. Some closed the export window before users noticed. The patterns are surprisingly consistent — and predict what to do *before* the announcement.