Topic:
Companies are usually inventing and reinventing products, some are successful and some are not, those who are not successful are usually put out of production or "killed". Killing a product or service is actually just what it sounds like, stop the production or services of a certain product. Companies, such as Google, try many products and services but not all of them takeoff and are therefore put to sleep. As anyone in the startup world will tell you, most things don't take off. (1) Google is very open about its dead products and see no shame in sharing them, in fact Google has a web page - https://killedbygoogle.com/ - where anyone can see Google's "graveyard". People should be glad Google is willing and able to try out so many products and accept their failure, they are a huge successful company that proves that without taking risks there would be no innovation.
Relation to Computer Science:
Google's list of 196 products, apps, and services (2) that have been shut down serve as proof that computer science is always changing. Trying out 12 different messaging apps (1) in a matter of one decade sure gives computer scientists enough room for innovation. After all Google, as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, software development and innovations company is trying to do what computers were designed to do, perform tasks and make our lives easier as calculators! There are some products that never even launched correctly and we miss them, like Google Glass, or the cell phone line that showed what Android is capable of (Nexus phones and tablets). Their products might have been successful for a year or two and that does not mean they failed after their that, these products pushed competitors and the company itself to create more and better products for the world of computing and technology.
References:
Companies are usually inventing and reinventing products, some are successful and some are not, those who are not successful are usually put out of production or "killed". Killing a product or service is actually just what it sounds like, stop the production or services of a certain product. Companies, such as Google, try many products and services but not all of them takeoff and are therefore put to sleep. As anyone in the startup world will tell you, most things don't take off. (1) Google is very open about its dead products and see no shame in sharing them, in fact Google has a web page - https://killedbygoogle.com/ - where anyone can see Google's "graveyard". People should be glad Google is willing and able to try out so many products and accept their failure, they are a huge successful company that proves that without taking risks there would be no innovation.
Relation to Computer Science:
Google's list of 196 products, apps, and services (2) that have been shut down serve as proof that computer science is always changing. Trying out 12 different messaging apps (1) in a matter of one decade sure gives computer scientists enough room for innovation. After all Google, as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, software development and innovations company is trying to do what computers were designed to do, perform tasks and make our lives easier as calculators! There are some products that never even launched correctly and we miss them, like Google Glass, or the cell phone line that showed what Android is capable of (Nexus phones and tablets). Their products might have been successful for a year or two and that does not mean they failed after their that, these products pushed competitors and the company itself to create more and better products for the world of computing and technology.
References:
- https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012505/google-decade-failed-projects-discontinued-wave-glass-daydream-vr
- https://killedbygoogle.com/
- https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/nexus-6p-vs-nexus-6-1305351
where anyone can see Google's "graveyard". People should be glad Google is willing and able to try out so many products and accept their failure, they are a huge successful company that proves that without taking risks there would be no innovation.
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