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This is a cloud service. I'd imagine they will be much less likely to kill these services outright. The impact on paying customers would just be too large. That's not to say they won't sunset certain features though.



I don't think you can get more "paying customers" than Google Checkout, but that just got axed.


The impact of killing Google Checkout for customers using it was probably minimal, since nobody was using Google Checkout (hence the reason Google killed it.)

Cloud services on the other hand, killing those would be highly disruptive and would probably effectively kill any products built on top of them. It's hard to imagine Google killing any of these services, unless one of them say is wildly unpopular and only a small handful of people will be outraged if it is killed. Even then, it's seems insane to think about Google shutting off database or computing services people are using to run businesses.


The issue was they weren't making enough money. I seriously think it was a small sliver part of a pie chart dominated by PayPal and Amazon.


Ok, but we were talking about paying customers, and the people using Checkout were certainly paying for it.




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