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At this point, google can have all the features it wants, and their products can be as amazing as anything, but I'm personally wary. If they established a coupl
by vikramkr 6y ago
At this point, google can have all the features it wants, and their products can be as amazing as anything, but I'm personally wary. If they established a couple billion dollar endowment for their products to make sure it can't get cancelled or created some sort of binding legal contract saying they wouldn't dump it and cause chaos for everyone using it, that would be more meaningful. I can count on slack and zoom to fight to keep their services alive since that's their entire business. Facebook seems to have treated WhatsApp and Instagram reasonably well so far. But I'm not in the mood to go through the hassle of setting up yet another google chat service, convincing friends to join (allo's gonna be great! This smart reply thing is so cool!) only to end up seeing it cancelled so quickly.
- agaase19 6y agoFair enough. I think, when it comes to messaging alone, Google has a steep climb to make for sure. But I also think that they are trying to progress towards their goal of ambient computing. They are trying to make sure they control as many touch points as possible which enables them to better integrate the software & hardware together to achieve things like voice assistant interaction (e.g hey Google, send a message), AI integration (e.g smart replies) and seamlessly using different Google products (quickly create a doc in messages or chat). This is a long term vision though; companies may happen over time which are better than Google at this.
- lowdose 6y agoAren't they at the same time better than any other cloud provider to deliver messaging with Firebase?