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Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months::Two years on a Pixel Pass was supposed to get you a new phone.

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[–] Hazdaz 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to get rid of that clown Sundar. Under his "leadership" Google has been on an endless downward trend.

[–] dantheclamman 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's helped with the only metric that shareholders actually care about: profitability. No matter that a lot of those on-paper $ have come through gimmickry and at the expense of the long-term success of the company.

[–] Hazdaz 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are right. The year before he became CEO, Google "only" had revenue of $66B. Last year, their revenue was $280B.

But if you look at the revenue chart, they were headed in that direction seemingly regardless of who was at the helm. But I think he is really hurting their long-term profits. I know that might sound crazy when they are making over 1/4 of a trillion per year, but there are more and more people who will simply not even consider a Google product these days because they feel in 6 months, Google will just kill it off. Who wants an orphaned phone or watch or VR headset, let alone all the software and services they kill off.

[–] dantheclamman 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they aren't just eating their seed corn. They're sowing the seed corn and then burning it down before it bears fruit, over and over

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

there are more and more people who will simply not even consider a Google product these days because they feel in 6 months, Google will just kill it off

What the fuck?