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Google to Grab: One Year Later (Steve Yegge)
- tomcam 7y agoI’ve enjoyed Yegge’s posts before but this felt a little.... manic.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoIndeed, since raw numbers seem to tell a different story: https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/03/27/grab-usage-in-free-fall-in-singapore-since-uber-withdrawal-according-to-similarweb-data/ https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/03/27/grab-us...
- jodrellblank 7y agoDragging out a disabled Muslim woman, as she cries at the founder's feet? Crikey. I could interpret this as a change of company, change of pace, reinvigoration of life, working on a hard problem in a new space .. or as the beginnings of a mental breakdown, guy who thinks he's in a Hollywood action film - hurrying through a bustling foreign megacity, working all hours, feeling on a mission to save the world, papered over with a thin rationalization about how amazing an ad and food delivery mobile app is. Maybe I just don't /get/ platforms enough.