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There certainly was an era, but it ended a long time ago, around 2010 when products like Google Plus and Google Glass emerged as a painfully stupid ideas, and i
by the-nightmare 7y ago
There certainly was an era, but it ended a long time ago, around 2010 when products like Google Plus and Google Glass emerged as a painfully stupid ideas, and it became obvious that Google was implementing true surveillance state agenda mandates, like always-on wearable, internet-enabled cameras and real name policies.
That was the end, and what we see now is that while those overt efforts may have failed, some of the more subtle B2B plays have been wildly succesful in achieving comparable goals.
- downerending 7y agoGoogle Plus also looks like a major milestone to me. I was initially a fanboy and dearly wanted to love it, but ultimately the UI design was too awful even for me. It must have been quite frustrating for the legion of developers involved to realize they were working on a doomed project. The other major milestone in my mind was the leak of internal communications immediately after the Damore fiasco. I'm indifferent to his firing, which I consider to be uncontroversial by corporate standards. But reading Googlers (some in management) blocking and threatening each other, sometimes with firing or even industry blacklisting was shocking. I've never seen anything as unprofessional in any work context whatsoever, and it completely changed my view of Google.