>This is bizarre to me. Pivoting is seen as a tremendously good thing in the startup community.
What's good for the startup community is not the same for the entrenched behemoth community.
>. If you have a product that isn't working and isn't getting users, you do something different or your company dies. You simply cannot keep throwing developer time at such a product.
Google however can. But instead of developing their product further, they announce it as the next thing, get millions of users, and then forget about it, don't update it, don't promote it anymore, and eventually close it pissing off all those users and failing to attract more users due to their own inaction.
(See the ex-googler's comment above about how this process goes).
What's good for the startup community is not the same for the entrenched behemoth community.
>. If you have a product that isn't working and isn't getting users, you do something different or your company dies. You simply cannot keep throwing developer time at such a product.
Google however can. But instead of developing their product further, they announce it as the next thing, get millions of users, and then forget about it, don't update it, don't promote it anymore, and eventually close it pissing off all those users and failing to attract more users due to their own inaction.
(See the ex-googler's comment above about how this process goes).