I think it’s because GCP isn’t profitable and so they don’t want a loss leader for a product line that isn’t competitive with their other internal products.
Typically you don’t want loss leaders for things that aren’t strategic or very profitable.
Google is not a cloud company. So this is probably just reallocating resources toward more important things.
I bet if domains was a loss leader to AdWords it would stick around.
Google Cloud reported profits in the last two quarters, and seems to be the thing they have been reallocating resources to this year, not from.
I think the reality is just that Google Domains was not (and never had been) a product of the Cloud organization and was not subject to their decision making process. But obviously that's not how anybody outside the company would have viewed it; they don't know the internal org charts nor care about them.
> Typically you don’t want loss leaders for things that aren’t strategic or very profitable.
So does that mean that GCP itself is on the chopping block? I seem to remember a similar discussion regarding its future was in the air about 2-3 years ago.
Typically you don’t want loss leaders for things that aren’t strategic or very profitable.
Google is not a cloud company. So this is probably just reallocating resources toward more important things.
I bet if domains was a loss leader to AdWords it would stick around.