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>> Getting into too many fields and ending up all over the place is bad management. I'm glad Google (and Apple and Amazon) got into the phone business, the cam
by TuringNYC 8y ago
>> Getting into too many fields and ending up all over the place is bad management.
I'm glad Google (and Apple and Amazon) got into the phone business, the camera business, the phone service business (Google Voice), the car business (Waymo) and the entertainment business (Youtube, Music, etc.)
The status quo was so awful (remember cable TV contracts with 200 channels you didnt want to watch?) and has finally improved with the tech giants putting pressure in cushy lazy incumbents.
Same for self-driving cars. Where were the efforts before Google and other tech giants go into the game? I seem to recall only incremental innovation for decades.
What I really wish is that they didnt botch some of these things (Google Voice is a great example of an amazing product with massive underinvestment (abandonment?) from Google.)
- voltagex_ 8y agoI think you're still seeing these companies as startups. They're in incremental innovation mode now. I'm biased, because I was hoping Amazon would come in and wipe the floor with Australian retail, but it's been kinda lukewarm. We also missed out on Google Voice, will miss out on whatever TV play they're making with YouTube.
- FractalParadigm 8y ago> We also missed out on Google Voice, will miss out on whatever TV play they're making with YouTube. To be fair, us Canadians are in the same boat. You can be literally a stone's throw from the U.S. and still not get a lot of features available. Voice was never available, Wallet took several years before it was rolled out here, YouTube Red isn't available here either. Hell, most new Home/Assistant features take months to arrive here too.