Martin Seeger on Nostr: It is easy to cut your losses if a significant part of the bill is paid by others: in ...

It is easy to cut your losses if a significant part of the bill is paid by others: in this case the users that also invested into that service.

On the high level the move may make sense from the Google perspective, especially from the balance sheet PoV.

But I doubt that even for Google the true costs will ever be really visible. I know at leats a dozend decision makers that were really p*ssed by the move. It is hard to assess those costs.

Also Google has lost that way a lot of voices that were speaking well about them. That will hurt them a lot in the upcoming discourse about breaking up Google.

Today, the people speaking most loudly and visiblly well about Google are paid lobbyists and that shows in the perception.

You probably also wanted to say that social media is a cesspit that imports a lot of problems into a company. That is most likely true, but Google has generally become a huge importer of problems in a lot of areas anyway.

So in total one can probably argue both ways. I can only give a final summary for myself and I deeply distrust Google since then.