[reactor]

Do you think anyone beside who are vocal (HN/tech crowd esp) care about this 'killed by google' and refrain from using their main source of revenue such as Search, Gmail, Android, Youtube, Map, Photos? Zilch. GCP/Gsuite's money pouring clients are enterprise customers (not HN crowd), who for the large majority won't bother much about that either. So they clearly know their act doesn't actually make a dent in their revenue stream, but in fact that spring cleaning is a win for them.

[Kye]

It happens one "maybe we should use [alternative] until Google gets its act together" at a meeting at a time. Microsoft was still a behemoth when no one still took it seriously outside people who were on a first name basis with a licensing auditor, and it's struggling to gain trust and respect back. Same with IBM, though they seem unconcerned with image. Collapses are never quick or complete at this scale.

It starts with a loss of cultural cachet among the people who influence spending. It looks like hip startups with rows of desks with Apple machines where Windows was the default for a decade or two before.

[LegitShady]

of course people do. anytime you have to buy into a google product that could be killed off anytime. It was the primary reason stadia never took off - you had to buy stadia only game licenses that no one was confident would still exist later.