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Exactly. I keep reminding people that other than Android, which was just a follow on to Apple's pioneering, they havn't really done anything truly innovative o

Exactly. I keep reminding people that other than Android, which was just a follow on to Apple's pioneering, they havn't really done anything truly innovative on their own COMPLETELY in house other than maybe Google Glass, which you could argue was a response to apple watch and the whole wearable craze (which sorta died out). They really should have stuck with Glass and not chickened out to pressure, hopefully it will be resurrected. All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions of smaller companies like DeepMind. Waymo is a result of picking of the guys already doing DARPA self driving competitions, arguably one of their best moves but still not really an in house breakthrough. Nowadays, Google constantly plays the "me too" game in every realm. Alexa vs OK Google is a great example. All their X projects sound "feel goody" but ultimately lack luster. They abandon Boston Dynamics which I still think has great potential.

ankmathur96 8y ago
This is a completely absurd claim - if you’ve ever taken a class on modern day systems, you’d know Google is the source of many significant papers that inspired several huge open source projects that power almost every company that needs to scale. “All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions” - woefully misguided. Google is hiring academia leaders left, right, and center and growing a collaborative environment that’s innovating. They’re discovering a lot of stuff in-house on this team. They’re building an incredible open-source library with almost 100K Github stars for machine learning. @self driving, they hired people building projects and are making it into a production self driving car. The latter is a far less constrained problem. @assistants, The Google Assistant can do way more than Alexa. Not seeing how this is a me too game
underyx 8y ago
> Google Glass, which you could argue was a response to apple watch and the whole wearable craze Very arguable, considering how Apple Watch was announced in 2014, while Google Glass was first shown off in 2013.
lucianomt 8y ago
Android was also an acquisition.

ankmathur96 8y ago

This is a completely absurd claim - if you’ve ever taken a class on modern day systems, you’d know Google is the source of many significant papers that inspired several huge open source projects that power almost every company that needs to scale. “All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions” - woefully misguided. Google is hiring academia leaders left, right, and center and growing a collaborative environment that’s innovating. They’re discovering a lot of stuff in-house on this team. They’re building an incredible open-source library with almost 100K Github stars for machine learning. @self driving, they hired people building projects and are making it into a production self driving car. The latter is a far less constrained problem. @assistants, The Google Assistant can do way more than Alexa. Not seeing how this is a me too game

underyx 8y ago

> Google Glass, which you could argue was a response to apple watch and the whole wearable craze Very arguable, considering how Apple Watch was announced in 2014, while Google Glass was first shown off in 2013.

lucianomt 8y ago

Android was also an acquisition.