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Telling people something is the next big thing is part of trying to make it so.

• flukus 10y ago
  Until you become the boy who cried wolf. I now consider anything from google vaporware until proved otherwise. The biggest part of making something the next big thing is actually producing a product.
  • astronautjones 10y ago
    The challenge they will always face. Once you get to this scale, there's no way to avoid it. I, for one, don't find it duplicitous - what if Google was a movie studio? The shame that they aren't is that we'll never see a technology giant's Pootie Tang (one of my favorite films, beloved by many, its name itself a piece of pop culture, though it failed on any metric a shareholder would consider)
    • flukus 10y ago
      >there's no way to avoid it Of course there is, keep it secret until they're close to release.
      • harke 10y ago
        They were calling for partners to build modules and announcing that they had multiple partners already. I think that's a valid enough reason to talk about it. There are enough leaked press stories on secret projects they are working on but not announcing until they have gone the distance.
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