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I switched our company to google - I’m someone heavily in the google ecosystem and not supported by google. Alexa does support me even though I don’t pay them
by privateSFacct 8y ago
I switched our company to google - I’m someone heavily in the google ecosystem and not supported by google.
Alexa does support me even though I don’t pay them for email. This is just one point, but illustrates the point.
Google has better tech, but weird product delivery approach. And I moved to AWS from google compute for a similar set of reasons.
- m0zg 8y agoGoogle works very simply on the inside: you get rewarded for launching _new_ impressive stuff. You rarely if ever get rewarded for fixing old and busted _existing_ stuff. Whether the newly launched stuff is suitable for the user is a tertiary concern. So yeah, no disagreement there, Google is not very user-focused, and has never been. But they're so far ahead technologically that in a lot of cases I'm willing to forgive them their ADHD.
- privateSFacct 8y agoThat would totally explain this! I'm often like, this tech is amazing. But wait, this doesn't even work with this other thing it should work with. It's definitely the fix / polish / integrate corner cases. Google+ was a nightmare as well with youtube and other services - again, I was like how are you listening to users with these approaches.