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arstechnica-com-3122		Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation | Ars Technica			.html	text/html	1263	92	71	Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google's product-killing reputation | Ars Technica Google's reputation for aggressively killing products and services is hurting the company's brand. Like the rest of Google, Cloud Platform has a reputation for instability, thanks to quickly deprecating APIs, which require any project hosted on Google's platform to be continuously updated to keep up with the latest changes. Enterprise APIs basically get a roadmap that promises stability for certain APIs. Google says, "The burden is on us: Our working principle is that no feature may be removed (or changed in a way that is not backwards compatible) for as long as customers are actively using it. Google Cloud Platform's awareness of Google's reputation, its steps to limit disruption to customers, and its communication of which offerings are more stable than others have created a model for the rest of the company. Ron is the Reviews Editor at Ars Technica, where he specializes in Android OS and Google products.	./cache/arstechnica-com-3122.html	./txt/arstechnica-com-3122.txt