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>Android, Maps, GSuite All of these products have existed for 5+ years. What recent thing has Google brought to the table that actually stuck?
by TremendousJudge 7y ago
>Android, Maps, GSuite
All of these products have existed for 5+ years.
What recent thing has Google brought to the table that actually stuck?
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoProbably their cloud offering and / or parts thereof, e.g. Firebase.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoFirebase was bought, not developed by Google itself.
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- scarface74 7y agoTheir cloud offerings are a distant third to Microsoft and Amazon and support - especially enterprise support - is legendarily bad.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoTheir support is non-existent not just bad. They shouldn't be in any consumer market.
- lukeschlather 7y agoAs someone who uses Google Cloud, Azure, and used to work for Amazon, I am happy using GCP but find Azure to be lacking in a lot of ways. Also Google support is usually absent but when I actually get to talk to a human, they're great. Microsoft support is usually present but often seems explicitly designed to waste my time.
- scarface74 7y agoSince you use to work for Amazon, I would suspect that your bar for acceptable support would be a lot higher. Even on the business support plan, opening up a ticket and starting a live chat is close to immediate with AWS. I’ve used them as the “easy button” plenty of times when I probably could have figured out the issue myself but didn’t want to waste time. They are batting close to 100. The one exception was a weird ECS error I kept getting that they couldn’t figure out. I realized later on that I hosed the permissions trying to do something cross account. I’m sure they would have eventually figured that out.
- perfect_wave 7y agoCurious as to what you find so bad about GCP support. (I work in GCP enterprise support)
- scarejunba 7y agoHmm, for the retail options? Or the premium options? We were a nine-fig customer and it was quite nice.
- scarface74 7y agoYou don’t have to be a “9 figure customer” to get great live support from AWS. It’s 10% of your bill (declining over certain thresholds) with a minimum of $100/month.
- scarejunba 7y agoI understand. I use AWS at work now. It's mostly curiosity about your experience than anything else.
- mayank 7y agoIt’s more like 10+ years but your point is a good one. Hard to grow trees when you keep cutting off the saplings.
- frayesto 7y agoGoogle photos?
- cannonedhamster 7y agoJust recently lost a major syncing ability and became less useful.
- frayesto 7y agoWhat syncing ability are you referring to?
- cannonedhamster 7y agoBetween Drive and Photos. Also it's only one way now, up, you can no longer sync photos between computers. It was major news for Photos users when it happened. I'll provide a link for more info. There was a large amount of functionality lost when this happened. Iirc it also dropped the ability to save Photos in native resolutions higher than the compressed Google format but I'm not 100% on that since I sync my family photos using Plex to my own server. https://www.talkandroid.com/341036-google-drops-photo-syncing-between-drive-and-photos-beginning-next-month/ https://www.talkandroid.com/341036-google-drops-photo-syncin...
- antientropic 7y agoThat's an oxymoron: how can you tell if it has stuck if it's recent?
- Drew_ 7y agoHave you never heard of Google Home? Google Assistant?
- scarejunba 7y agoGoogle Fi, the Nexus and Pixel lines, Google Play Music, Google Home, Protobuf, Guava, ReCaptcha, TensorFlow, Google Assistant, Android Auto, Chromecast, Google Tag Manager, Google Chrome, Google Flights, Google Translate, Google Domains.
- smileybarry 7y agoGoogle Play Music is heading to the graveyard and replaced by the worse YouTube Music. Nexus is long dead.