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If that turns out to be true what are all the talented people at Google and Facebook supposed to do?
by maxxxxx 8y ago
If that turns out to be true what are all the talented people at Google and Facebook supposed to do?
- shdh 8y agoWork on something other than ad-tech?
- Barrin92 8y agoWell hopefully integrating technology deeply into the rest of the economy to bring up productivity and share prosperity rather than trying to hijack people's attention with surface level consumer products. There is a very interesting generational rift between the pre-web companies like Microsoft and Apple and the Google/Facebook generation.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI think giving things away for "free" was the initial sin. It warped customer expectations and created bad business models.
- mr_toad 8y agoI’ve heard it said that Google would rather keep them round doing nothing than have them go to a competitor. That’s just rumour, but it would help explain Google’s ephemeral approach to new products.