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That sounds to me like Google knows how to do projects, not products.

• twblalock 8y ago
  It seems like the incentives for employees at Google are the problem here. People are rewarded for successfully completing projects, not for maintaining existing ones, so rational employees will maximize their compensation by moving on from a project after it launches and trying to launch a new one. There seems to be nobody at the top enforcing a consistent product vision. This is how Android ended up having several text messaging apps at the same time a few years ago. Apple certainly would not have done that, and I doubt even Microsoft would have allowed that state of affairs to exist.
  • Moru 8y ago
    Microsoft however used to pay developers per lines of code... Not sure what is better in this case :-)
    • O_H_E 8y ago
      Oh boy, this literally encourages bloat
    • llampx 8y ago
      I thought it was Bill Gates that said that paying developers by lines of code is like paying aircraft engineers by the ton.
  • snaky 8y ago
    > This is how Android ended up having several text messaging apps at the same time And in the same time, they had (open for a couple of years) a bug about Android default app sometimes randomly send SMS to wrong recipient.