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I wish someone at Google would explain their overarching strategy and target. This piecemeal approach just reeks of no coherent plan.
by thrill 10y ago
I wish someone at Google would explain their overarching strategy and target. This piecemeal approach just reeks of no coherent plan.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoI doubt they have any coherent strategy in the messaging space.
- zokier 10y agoThrow shit on the wall and see what sticks? Isn't that what pretty much everyone is doing?
- bigkm 10y agoOnce it sticks and everyone is using it, then shut it down
- vocatus_gate 10y agoIt's sad but true. I can hardly trust any Google products any more because you never know when they're randomly going to give it the axe for no apparent reason.
- rhizome 10y agoThey don't appear to have much of a coherent strategy in the product space.
- keymone 10y agoHow about coherent strategy within a company?
- yeukhon 10y agoWell, it is not a big secret on many occasions people tell the outsiders Google would have multiple teams working on the same, if not, similar product, only to find just one will launch publicly, and then 6-24 months later the service will shut down.
- ballenf 10y agoIf you remember whose Google's customers are--advertisers, not users--coherency is a lot easier to understand. So it's really easy to predict Google. Just ask the following questions: - can Google run ads to every user of the product? - can Google extract usage data to build a better user profile, in order to charge more for above ads? The answer with regard to Talk or any interoperable service, is almost always no to both. The incoherency we see is related to the fact that not every engineer or manager at Google is fully plugged into the above or sometimes they create a product that fails to answer the above with the hope they'll figure that out later. Sometimes the nature of the product or the fact that it's an open standard makes it impossible to evolve the product to get the questions right. I loved that I could use my native Mac messaging app to communicate with colleagues in google chat. It was real-time and all messages were logged and available in gmail. I guess that's going away.
- remir 10y agoI agree. Where is Sundar? Larry? Sergueï?
- sah2ed 10y agoA googler already summarized their strategy succinctly up-thread [1] as: Google is a feudally organized collection of fiefdoms and this shows in their product strategy. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13951918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13951918
- martin1975 10y agoyep, and neither Larry nor Sergey are strong, commanding personalities like Jobs was w/Apple - they're mega geeks, good at what they do, but at the level of the game they're playing, they need a firmer vision/hand to manage the direction of the company... and remain open at the same time instead of building walled gardens. They're slowly turning into Apple....