Google kills its Twitch killer–the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week(arstechnica.com)
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Google kills its Twitch killer–the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/googles-killing-the-youtube-gaming-app-this-week/#p3
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It's nice that Google likes experimenting with products which necessitates being willing to kill things that aren't working, but I think its crossing a point where even perfectly justified cancellations are adding to the perception of new Google products are unreliable for the long term. It's likely directly impacting Stadia right now. It probably wouldn't be so bad if they just clearly marked experimental things as experimental and didnt brand everything as an official Google product while elevating successful projects into "real product" category. At least from a perception perspective it would help people's confidence in adopting products and maybe fight their meme reputation of constant product killer, although maybe this perception issue isnt as big an issue as it seems, idk.
Bring back the "beta" tag as for gmail.
Although I was a user of Youtube Gaming, there was literally no differentiation. I'm an outlier in that I join all these streaming websites because I'm a hardcore gamer, but I wonder why would a regular user ever go to Youtube Gaming
YouTube Gaming looked like a shot in the dark from the onset.