regarding stadia, What did you think they would happen? They have a graveyard of great projects that should still be used by millions.
The only things I see continuing are android, ads, search, I even feel with the severe losses their cloud unit is seeing even GCP could be shut down. Hell I could even see them abandoning Waymo, I mean this is google after all :)
They're not killing chrome. I doubt they kill their office suite either, it has really good numbers among young people, and microsoft's entire business is built on the back of its enterprise productivity software. It's a trillion dollar market cap business.
But why would they? The Google Docs suite is a billion+ user product, which is monetized through Google Workspace and Google for Education (with many millions of paid user subscriptions).
This is just not remotely plausible of a shutdown target. It also dates back to 2006. I'm struggling to think of even five Google products I would name as being less likely to be shut down.
Hangouts functionality basically still exists, just under a different name. It's still integrated in Gmail, with the same contact list, and all the previous conversations from Hangouts were still there. It's so similar that I bet many people don't even realize anything changed.
This is unlike, say, Reader, which was canceled with no replacement to this day.
That seems less improbable than even a lot of other cuts. A science experiment that doesn't have a clear path to an assistive driving revenue opportunity much less something transformational? I'd probably make an argument that they have to keep plugging on GCP but could cut Waymo loose without much collateral damage.
Waymo has taken a fair bit of external funding. Google could in theory cut them loose which would effectively kill them, but I'm not sure they could just shut it down.
I'm I dumb for assuming that google must use GCP internally? Therefore making it pretty much immune from being shut down. I guess they could go full internal tool with it?
