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Google arguably had first mover advantage in the video space which was the promised land even before Covid blessed it. And yet by the time it hit this year, Zo
by polynomial 6y ago
Google arguably had first mover advantage in the video space which was the promised land even before Covid blessed it.
And yet by the time it hit this year, Zoom took the prize. I think this represents a much bigger fail on Google's part than I have seen being mentioned.
- JumpCrisscross 6y agoNobody expects Google to competently execute. Their failures aren’t newsworthy. Compare the effect on competitors’ stock prices when Amazon or Apple announce they’re moving into a market versus Google or Microsoft.
- devindotcom 6y agoSkype had about a 10 year head start on this and amazingly it's like the one brand I don't hear mentioned at all when it comes to video chat
- lotsofpulp 6y agoBoth Microsoft and Google dropped the ball bigtime by letting WhatsApp take the whole international messaging market. I remember how refreshingly easy to use Whatsapp was when it came out. It was such a pain to transfer contacts and images and whatnot before, and having to worry about international MMS/SMS charges. Then this tiny little app comes along and blows all the others away by simple requiring phone number verification.
- mc32 6y agoDidn't they abandon that product for Teams, for enterprise users/customers?
- Godel_unicode 6y agoTeams has on the order of 75 million daily active users, but it's the typical Microsoft story. Not widely talked about among startups, but totally ubiquitous in most companies.