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Google is probably the best company in the world at copying successful products. They copied AWS, Amazon Echo, Evernote, the iPhone, and the list goes on. Whi
by nicodjimenez 8y ago
Google is probably the best company in the world at copying successful products. They copied AWS, Amazon Echo, Evernote, the iPhone, and the list goes on. While maybe this isn't the most sexy strategy, the truth is that it CAN work when you have really amazing engineers. As the ad margins diminish, they will fiercely compete with everyone who seems to be doing something interesting. They are definitely fighting very aggressively on many fronts and are definitely not dying _yet_.
- bitL 8y agoI think that award goes to Amazon - they are ripping off successful designs from their own marketplace; can't really beat that! Clueless 3rd party producers take all the risks; once Amazon notices them they are done within a few months as Amazon prepares their own "clones" under their own brands with prices nobody can beat.
- degenerate 8y agoI agree, Amazon is the better copycat. Remember when Google tried to buy Groupon for $6B and they declined? Both Amazon and Google subsequently created a Groupon clone, and the result: "Amazon Local"[1] was way better than "Google Offers"[2]... and interestingly both shut down in 2015. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_products_and_services#Amazon_Local https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_products_and_se... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Offers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Offers