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nzeidyesterday at 6:14 PM1 replyview on HN

This fixation on "importance" is laughable. It is "insane" to drop Gmail because it makes them a shitload of money. That is how corporations work.


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traderj0eyesterday at 6:23 PM

The reason people mention importance is because corps like Google don't just care about per-product profitability, they assess how one product affects the rest of their business.