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What is your evidence that Google has "stopped innovating"? In my opinion Google is very focused on making sure that innovation doesn't stop, because if it stop
by stingrae 9y ago
What is your evidence that Google has "stopped innovating"? In my opinion Google is very focused on making sure that innovation doesn't stop, because if it stops they will lose.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoGoogle acquires innovators, it doesn't innovate much itself. Everything new Google has launched since like... Chrome, has been an acquisition, or an integration of a couple of acquisitions together. (Sure, that work is not small, but at the point Google got involved, the innovative part was mostly over.) Self-driving car team was picked up wholesale from a university, DeepMind was an acquisition, most of what Google Lens is was from an acquisition. Projects like Ara, Jacquard, and Tango were all from Motorola's ATAP division, which they acquired. Almost anything you see coming out of Google can be traced back to an existing thing that Google purchased, rebranded, and relaunched. cromwellian's comment probably lends to explaining some of why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519220
- stingrae 9y agoYou miss some key products (>1B Users) Google has created completely within: Search, GMail, Maps, Calendar, etc. Many of Google's products did start from acquisitions. Though those startups can't claim all the credit. Most wouldn't have become as big as they are now without the capital and talent that Google brought to them.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI specified: 'Since Chrome'. All of those products predate Chrome.
- dunkelheit 9y agoAt least their Maps product originated outside Google.