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While I agree with this sentiment in their consumer products (and what I'll call "consumer devs"), I feel this industry (i.e. medical) is different. These cust

While I agree with this sentiment in their consumer products (and what I'll call "consumer devs"), I feel this industry (i.e. medical) is different. These customers are different, Google had to go through a lot of work to allow them to legally use their products, and will get to charge a premium. This is the high end of B2B, and unless they're moronic (which is possible) they'll know the medical industry moves slow, so any customers they acquire will almost guaranteed be long term customers.

thefounder 8y ago
What you don't understand is that Google doesn't like things that "move slow". If the product doesn't get enough attention or for whatever reason Google may pull the plug and you have no immediate replacement/open source version. Now that you mentioned that the industry moves slow I can actually see sunsetting blog post. Note this is from Google Plus but could apply to any product: ..." while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or adoption, and has seen limited user interaction ...""""
- glennpratt 8y ago
  Comparing a potentially high margin product in a highly regulated sector to an unpopular social network isn't much of a comparison.
- lg 8y ago
  G+ is a going concern for enterprise, they only shut down the consumer version.
- penagwin 8y ago
  To be fair, your example is of a social network which lives and dies by widespread usage and growth. Yes certain niches enjoyed G+ but it seems their aim was to compete with the likes of Facebook which explains why they believe they failed their goal to achieve widespread usage. I'm skeptical too, we can only wait and see. I'm essentially just hoping they understood the market they're entering but hey it's Google. I'd also imagine they'd have service contracts for X years though? I can't imagine a health network wanting to use their service without guaranteed support for 5/10+ years. (Heck I imagine it'd take a year or two to even develop applications that use it)
pjmlp 8y ago
Only if they really offer humans that do enterprise speak.
- geodel 8y ago
  I hope this time they go with IBM's Watson AI to do enterprise speak because that's what real serious enterprise use everywhere.
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8ytecoder 8y ago
They cancelled Google Health before. Used to be a favorite of mine. https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/google-shuts-down-medical-records-and-health-data-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/google-shuts-down-medical-...

thefounder 8y ago

What you don't understand is that Google doesn't like things that "move slow". If the product doesn't get enough attention or for whatever reason Google may pull the plug and you have no immediate replacement/open source version. Now that you mentioned that the industry moves slow I can actually see sunsetting blog post. Note this is from Google Plus but could apply to any product: ..." while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or adoption, and has seen limited user interaction ...""""

glennpratt 8y ago
Comparing a potentially high margin product in a highly regulated sector to an unpopular social network isn't much of a comparison.
lg 8y ago
G+ is a going concern for enterprise, they only shut down the consumer version.
penagwin 8y ago
To be fair, your example is of a social network which lives and dies by widespread usage and growth. Yes certain niches enjoyed G+ but it seems their aim was to compete with the likes of Facebook which explains why they believe they failed their goal to achieve widespread usage. I'm skeptical too, we can only wait and see. I'm essentially just hoping they understood the market they're entering but hey it's Google. I'd also imagine they'd have service contracts for X years though? I can't imagine a health network wanting to use their service without guaranteed support for 5/10+ years. (Heck I imagine it'd take a year or two to even develop applications that use it)

pjmlp 8y ago

Only if they really offer humans that do enterprise speak.

geodel 8y ago
I hope this time they go with IBM's Watson AI to do enterprise speak because that's what real serious enterprise use everywhere.

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8ytecoder 8y ago

They cancelled Google Health before. Used to be a favorite of mine. https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/google-shuts-down-medical-records-and-health-data-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/google-shuts-down-medical-...