1. Do you believe there is ever a time when a developer should retire an unprofitable app, or should they be required to maintain everything they built in perpetuity?
2. When that time comes, how does one communicate such intent without it falling under your definition of Corporate BS?
As someone who's been on the receiving end of discontinued products/services, of course this didn't make me very happy at the time. But at the end of the day, if something isn't bringing in money, I'd rather the developer does everything they can to create a soft landing for their existing users than try to pretend everything is fine and eventually become insolvent because of the expenditures on non-performing products, at which point their entire portfolio goes poof.
Google has built a reputation for rug-pulling, and at this point that reputation is well deserved. But that doesn't automatically imply that every product discontinuation is Google-like, or "BS".
1. Do you believe there is ever a time when a developer should retire an unprofitable app, or should they be required to maintain everything they built in perpetuity?
2. When that time comes, how does one communicate such intent without it falling under your definition of Corporate BS?
As someone who's been on the receiving end of discontinued products/services, of course this didn't make me very happy at the time. But at the end of the day, if something isn't bringing in money, I'd rather the developer does everything they can to create a soft landing for their existing users than try to pretend everything is fine and eventually become insolvent because of the expenditures on non-performing products, at which point their entire portfolio goes poof.
Google has built a reputation for rug-pulling, and at this point that reputation is well deserved. But that doesn't automatically imply that every product discontinuation is Google-like, or "BS".