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That's not exactly Google's problem. That's '80-20 economy' for you, AKA dictate of majority. If some feature is too hard for 80 per cent of users, tough luck f
by snaky 8y ago
That's not exactly Google's problem. That's '80-20 economy' for you, AKA dictate of majority. If some feature is too hard for 80 per cent of users, tough luck for 20 per cent who used it.
The typical Google is the decision to delete annotations instead of just turn it off by default.
- arkitaip 8y agoBut annotations aren't hard to use, just the opposite. Google is removing them because they don't really work that well on mobile.
- snaky 8y agoThey have dedicated YouTube mobile app to make it work really well on mobile, you know. With dedicated team of developers.
- RugnirViking 8y agoNot to mention they also have dedicated entire mobile ecosystem and operating system as well as significant leverage even in other phone ecosystems
- agumonkey 8y agomobile first is pretty nasty, but it's probably unavoidable business wise since smartphones are the new mainstream
- snaky 8y ago'Mobile first' is not equal to 'remove all the features and add white fields and huge padding everywhere'. E.g. WeChat is not only 'mobile first', but second, third and fourth, from the day one. And from the day one all the WeChat team do is adding new features, not removing old ones.
- agumonkey 8y agoyou got the idea, when a company allocates resources for mobile, the rest gets less, ultimately that's N platforms to support, and the less platforms, the less costs.
- Dylan16807 8y agoIt's not because of "mobile first", which could just as easily manifest as adding the feature to mobile ASAP.