You'd mused on how bad the PR disaster would prove, of Google's YouTube/G+ integration, back in November of 2013.
Five years later, that integration has been reversed, and Google are in the process of killing off G+.
Trust in Silicon Valley as a whole is low, Apple's CEO has just called for a national data privacy law in the US, and the idea of adopting a new Google product doomed to be killed shortly after is now a cheap punch line.
Google itself doesn't appear to be financially damaged, but that can take a long time to set in.
You'd mused on how bad the PR disaster would prove, of Google's YouTube/G+ integration, back in November of 2013.
Five years later, that integration has been reversed, and Google are in the process of killing off G+.
Trust in Silicon Valley as a whole is low, Apple's CEO has just called for a national data privacy law in the US, and the idea of adopting a new Google product doomed to be killed shortly after is now a cheap punch line.
Google itself doesn't appear to be financially damaged, but that can take a long time to set in.