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I feel like Google is still stuck in 2005. Not much has changed from top of my head. All of their products are still based on their end-user being the product
by brilliantcode 10y ago
I feel like Google is still stuck in 2005. Not much has changed from top of my head.
All of their products are still based on their end-user being the product since everything is free and people expect it to be that way.
I don't see anything changing because they are literally printing money from their monopoly on online advertising. They have no serious competition and no, Facebook is not really great for targeted advertising unless you are a big brand.
Without any real external pressure as a result of their own success, it's beginning to look a lot like Microsoft of 2005.
Even from a developer's point of view, Amazon has usurped the cloud space with Azure now playing catchup and winning.
Much as Satella realized that Microsoft needs to stop being like Google and more B2B like Oracle, Google needs to find it's new place.
Vast majority of the public is unlikely to give a shit about their privacy in return for free productivity and entertainment but demographics change.
- mattmcknight 10y ago"All of their products are still based on their end-user being the product since everything is free" Counterexamples: GSuite (fka Google Apps) Google Pixel Google Home Google Wifi Google Cloud Platform
- baccheion 10y agoWhat's funny about Google's Cloud initiative is that even as recently as a few years ago, they didn't have enough servers to scale their own products and "were lacking the capacity to expand to meet the needs of X-product-being-pitched." Or maybe this is just another example of them being full of it. If I remember correctly, they had to take a significant amount of server resources from other teams in order to launch Google Instant.