How to Back-Pedal a Product?

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iwan: I think it is difficult to figure out how to back pedal and whether the trust was a completely broken at that point. And then you have to back pedal even further than a than nestley you wished a. So some of the theory, i think, was then to go off and create a separate product which had some of the properties of gogle bas but then also integrated features that were previously ingogl aan an igogle. See, this is the the actual corps of still, i believe slokon valley's moral compass issues. If you're up against a competitor who does not care about trust, cares only about it, is almost impossible to win....

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