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It's a typical Asshole Executive move: leverage successful feature to increase adoption of random other product, and then convert adoption increase into bonus a
by barrkel 8y ago
It's a typical Asshole Executive move: leverage successful feature to increase adoption of random other product, and then convert adoption increase into bonus and career opportunities, and hope that the loss in goodwill isn't noticed.
It was the same when G+ was created. Asshole Executives started jamming + buttons everywhere, including search results (!). They killed + in search queries as meaning "required". Every semi-successful feature had to get G+ integration to maximize the adoption of G+.
- gaius_baltar 8y ago> Every semi-successful feature had to get G+ integration to maximize the adoption of G+. Also, forced Youtube integration and G+ accounts being required even to rate Android apps.
- ralfd 8y agoFunny that G+ was still ignored despite this effort.
- josteink 8y agos/Funny/Fair and just/ We shouldn’t reward scummy behaviour like this.
- rmc 8y agoSome times people say "What if $COMPANY goes evil?". But if Google couldn't make G+ successful, then them going evil shouldn't be too concerning. They're clearly not as powerful as one could think
- Tsiklon 8y agoI'd be inclined to believe it was ignored because of this effort.