I’ve literally never heard of Keen until this article.
The traditional way to learn about Google services is from the shutdown announcement.
I know they make shoes.
Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?
It’s just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don’t use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.
yep. I don’t go near Google products anymore because I know I’m gonna have to migrate a short while later. I don’t understand how they’re not seeing this
In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.
But the problem is, Google does this with everything.
Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.
At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.
293 products and counting.
Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down
Never even heard of it
Me neither but I’m sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.
I know Google has a terrible reputation for killing their projects but this one is just an experiment from Area 120 so it’s not surprising or terrible that they’re killing it or weren’t advertising it.
I also never heard of this product, so the first thing I thought of was Keen Software House (makers of the game Space Engineers).
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Billy Blaze!
Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)
I thought they made shoes
What’s keen?
No way!
Another one bites the dust
I have seen dead social media or social media approaching its dead, but I ve never seen this. Keen looks like it had zero activity for a long, long time.
Shut down what?
