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Because advertising value of poor and dumb users of the internet is more profitable. And Google is pretty bad at creating products so no one is willing to pay
by chewz 7y ago
Because advertising value of poor and dumb users of the internet is more profitable.
And Google is pretty bad at creating products so no one is willing to pay for them - Gmail, Search Google Cloud etc. - they can survive on the market only because they are free.
As long as Google products are free they can suffocate any potential competition. If Google products were paid for there would exist healthy competition that would marginalize Google in a blink of an eye.
- highhedgehog 7y agoWhy do you think Google's product are bad? I find Gmail, GCloud (do you mean the Cloud Platform) ect work perfectly. What's wrong with them, apart for the "evilness" of collecting huge amounts of data of the user?
- thorin 7y agoWell, Gmail was ok but then they decided to slow it down massively for no benefit. Sure paid services may work better, but "integrated" services are worth more so apple/google all in is the preferred approach.
- thiago_fm 7y agoAll other paid mail options are better, such as protonmail etc. It's just too expensive for me though. So I use GMail. Google can beat competition with storage space, integration and infinite money from Google cash cow etc. But the products are crap and I concur with the other person who commented on it that it's just another Google product to show ads and track me.
- highhedgehog 7y agoWhat do you find in other services that you think is better? Like proton-mail vs gmail.
- thiago_fm 7y agoIt works very well, no downsides, apart the fact I need to pay. I'm not the product. Gmail web almost eat all my memory and is kind of shitty and not snappy at all. I think even office 365 looks better atm. I don't know what happened to google, but it's probably something really wrong. Maybe it got too big that nobody cares anymore?
- dazc 7y agoLots of people are paying for Gmail and Cloud, these are not good examples for your argument.
- doingmyting 7y agoThe bulk of what google makes comes from search advertising. What it makes from people paying for other services is a drop in the bucket. So the point stands.
- catacombs 7y ago> Lots of people are paying for Gmail You mean organizations who use it as their internal email service, correct? What, exactly, do you get compared to the free Gmail?
- ExtremePopcorn 7y agodisclaimer: employee "Google is pretty bad at creating products so no one is willing to pay for them" doesn't track when facebook switched to gmail after giving up on microsoft exchange. edit: also I work in ads, but won't bother responding to the "google just wants to manipulate dumb people" point. if you're starting from the assumption of malice I don't think the discussion would lead anywhere. and probably don't want to say more anyway, will delegate that to PR.