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jbg_ | 7 years ago

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

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nolemurs|7 years ago

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.

DannyBee|7 years ago

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

jbg_|7 years ago

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.