Google’s relationship with its own products is, well, tenuous at best. It’s become a running joke within the tech sphere; Google makes (or buys) something new, pours a bunch of money into promoting and improving it, then - in a shockingly high number of cases - tosses it aside like a petulant toddler already tiring of its new toy.
Just take a trip down to the graveyard - the Google Graveyard, that is, and you’ll find row upon row of digital headstones bearing obituaries to the software and hardware Google has taken off life support the moment they got boring or unprofitable.
