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Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android. By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine.

• magicalist 11y ago
  > Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android Is it? > By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine If everything is a moonshot, nothing is, etc. AFAIK both projects were just 20% time projects scaled up to three or four people[1]. A "moonshot" is obviously a wishy-washy term, but opportunity for success doesn't seem to be sufficient to call something that. [1] http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-birth-part-2 http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-bi...
  • gress 11y ago
    > Is it? Yes. They first used the word when referring to Andy Rubin's departure from Android.