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Search, Maps, Ads and Android are Google's most successful product. Android was bought at well.
by throw_m239339 6y ago
Search, Maps, Ads and Android are Google's most successful product.
Android was bought at well.
- nix23 6y agoSearch and Streetview is the only true Google-Product, everything else was copied or a buy from others.
- jkaplowitz 6y agoGmail started as an internal 20% project too, I think. The key elements of GCP were also developed in-house. But yeah, a lot of their good stuff started as an acquisition. (Disclosure: I was a Googler for a few years, joining through an adtech-related acquisition, and a Google intern one summer several years before that. But I haven't worked for Google in over five years.)
- nix23 6y agoBut Gmail was just Email with a counting Storage timer (which was really exiting at times where 30MB was a normal Free-mail quota). And GCP...well nothing new after Heroku and Amazon. It just feels that google is always two steps behind from new inventions, then they try to half heartily implement it, or buy another corporation. Google should sell itself for free to Elon (Joke...but also not really)
- robk 6y agoThe serious android work was done well after acquisition
- nix23 6y agoI would say the serious work was done before...you know the operating-system. Like with chrome..the serious work was made before...khtml.
- mondoshawan 6y agoNo, not really. The vast majority of the OS was developed after Android was acquired. It wasn't even a shippable product before then. Source: I have a Sooner, the first ever android phone, abd I wrote software for it.
- wombatmobile 6y agoThe value of Android to Google is that it enables them to gather vast quantities of data from their users. Google uses this data to enhance the efficacy of its advertising, by predicting what people will click on.
- mondoshawan 6y agoI'd be curious to know what hard evidence you have to back this claim up with, otherwise its just hearsay.
- wombatmobile 6y agoShoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
- nix23 6y ago>curious to know what hard evidence you have to back this claim up with Wow buddy...that should be absolutely known by now, same with Chrome and every single Google-Service. https://about.google/intl/en/how-our-business-works/ https://about.google/intl/en/how-our-business-works/ > But, when you use our products you trust us with your personal information. Thanks you very much ;)
- nix23 6y agoBut when you had a phone and you could write software for it...that means it's shippable, no?
- luckylion 6y agoAnd Search, Maps and Android are support products of Ads.
- jkaplowitz 6y agoA bunch of Ads too, including DoubleClick.