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... unless they decide that giving one year of notice would be too expensive or hard.



This is the best guarantee any company ever gives.

For smaller companies if something becomes too expensive or hard, they just go out of business. For larger companies, they have to draw the line somewhere. You won't get stronger guarantees from anyone, that would be insane.

Google definitely has a history of turning down free services when they're proving unprofitable, but that's only free services. There's no history of Google turning down paid services without good notice that I know of.


As mentioned, no, the legal standard is not that simple


Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running. I don't see how this would be any different. I know that "reasonable good faith" is a legal term of art, and I'm saying that I don't think Google would struggle to meet that standard if they needed to shut one of these services down.


Those products Google shut down didn't have terms of services requiring Google to keep them up. You've ignored half the argument here.


"Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running."

That isn't the standard listed. It's "substantial economic burden".

None of those services were a substantial economic burden for a many-billion dollar company, so sorry, but i completely disagree.




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