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It does indeed appear to be their strategy; although it seems to work well enough for them. It's just a bit frustrating for users who periodically lose an app
by blunte 10y ago
It does indeed appear to be their strategy; although it seems to work well enough for them. It's just a bit frustrating for users who periodically lose an app they came to depend on.
- icebraining 10y agoDoes it work for them, though? I don't remember their successful products arising from this process; they never had a bunch of email services before Gmail, nor multiple mobile OSs before Android, nor different browsers before Chrome, etc. The closest might be Google Video before YouTube, but it wasn't really the same kind of product.
- shawabawa3 10y ago> The closest might be Google Video before YouTube, but it wasn't really the same kind of product. Also YouTube was already the dominant player (beating google video) by the time google acquired it. It wasn't built by google