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Google has indeed been much more successful at shipping vaporware.
by webwielder2 8y ago
Google has indeed been much more successful at shipping vaporware.
- dnautics 8y agoI wouldn't call google's products vaporware. There are definitely five that I have used. Search, Gmail, Maps, Youtube, and Android. I barely use google search anymore (DDG is my major driver) - I'm not too content with Gmail anymore, and my youtube use has gone down since their ad strategy has changed. Probably Maps and Android are the two products they do that I would consider 'quality'. I'm not happy with Tensorflow, Golang, or Kubernetes.
- dnautics 8y agooh chrome is pretty popular it seems (I use firefox)
- avinium 8y agoTensorflow, I can understand - I imagine the rampant popularity of pytorch shows we're not alone. What's your issue with Golang though?
- dnautics 8y agoThere was an article about how golang takes a very classist attitude... There are programmers who use go, that are the peons, and the programmers who write go, who are anointed.. like hashmaps breaking the typesystem. It feels like a lot of the things that happen like if err != nil are code smell. I wrote a cli in go and wouldn't mind it again but I program in elixir now and the emphasis on developer joy is refreshing (but it makes wise choices, e.g limiting the scope of macros to lexical)
- samatman 8y agoIn the last twenty years, Google/Alphabet has killed more products than Apple has launched. In a very real sense, Alphabet has an r selected corporate strategy, while Apple is K selected[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
- baldfat 8y ago> my youtube use has gone down since their ad strategy has changed. I pay for Google Music and YouTube for $16 for 5 family members and me. I haven't seen a YouTube ad for years. Best use of my money every month.