>> Stadia failed as a business, not as a product or technical solution.
Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users.
It failed to get adoption by developers and gamers because Google has a reputation for killing things.
Google has a reputation for killing things because it's leadership does not have a vision outside of advertising and its internal culture does not reward long-term maintenance of products.
>> I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about.
It started with Google Reader and has become ever more obvious since then.
When Google launches a new product, observers in tech make bets about how long the product will be around before Google kills it.
Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users.
It failed to get adoption by developers and gamers because Google has a reputation for killing things.
Google has a reputation for killing things because it's leadership does not have a vision outside of advertising and its internal culture does not reward long-term maintenance of products.
>> I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about.
It started with Google Reader and has become ever more obvious since then.
When Google launches a new product, observers in tech make bets about how long the product will be around before Google kills it.
It has become a meme: https://killedbygoogle.com/