I've never seen a consistent product vision from Google. What I see is a company that lets engineers spend a lot of time pursuing their interests, subsidized by

I've never seen a consistent product vision from Google. What I see is a company that lets engineers spend a lot of time pursuing their interests, subsidized by the company's ad revenue. Sometimes that results in products, but sometimes it results in multiple teams working on chat apps that never see the light of day, or Android being shipped with multiple SMS messaging applications at the same time, or that weird split between Gmail and Inbox. The money wasted must be tremendous.