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Given Googles poor track record for creating new products in recent years this all makes sense.

koolba 6y ago
Google has a great track record for creating new products. It’s the longevity and overall follow through that is lacking.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  Many Google "products" have come through acquisitions. The work product of others placed under a Google moniker.
  - stefan_ 6y ago
    And many of their most successful products were 20% engineer inventions.
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
- enos_feedler 6y ago
  Yes and in Android, where I observed this, it's going to some of the worst. It was a defensive move instead of true insight into what mobile look like. Perhaps the one driving differentiated vision might be "open". But as the OEM world increasingly moves towards a collection of Apples, longevity and followthrough are going to be tough to deliver. I still think there is some great product muscle in areas like Google Cloud. Despite being highly competitive with AWS and Azure, at least it's born out of a desire to share their own best infrastructure with the rest of the world. They should be doing this and feels important. Despite Google shuttering the game studio, I think products like Stadia are going to do well, built on the backbone of Youtube (casting streams or jumping into existing with your game) and Assistant (in game tutorials/help). When you are as big as Google some things are just going to be sputtering and unfortunately that was in the area I worked.
- snarfy 6y ago
  I mean, how many of us have dozens of half finished projects sitting around before it gets dumped for the next new shiny?
  - bitcharmer 6y ago
    Most of us, I guess. But we don't launch those products to millions of users before we loose interest in them.
    - enos_feedler 6y ago
      It is relative though. A million users to Google is like 10 users to us, right?

Google has a great track record for creating new products. It’s the longevity and overall follow through that is lacking.

1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
Many Google "products" have come through acquisitions. The work product of others placed under a Google moniker.
- stefan_ 6y ago
  And many of their most successful products were 20% engineer inventions.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions
enos_feedler 6y ago
Yes and in Android, where I observed this, it's going to some of the worst. It was a defensive move instead of true insight into what mobile look like. Perhaps the one driving differentiated vision might be "open". But as the OEM world increasingly moves towards a collection of Apples, longevity and followthrough are going to be tough to deliver. I still think there is some great product muscle in areas like Google Cloud. Despite being highly competitive with AWS and Azure, at least it's born out of a desire to share their own best infrastructure with the rest of the world. They should be doing this and feels important. Despite Google shuttering the game studio, I think products like Stadia are going to do well, built on the backbone of Youtube (casting streams or jumping into existing with your game) and Assistant (in game tutorials/help). When you are as big as Google some things are just going to be sputtering and unfortunately that was in the area I worked.
snarfy 6y ago
I mean, how many of us have dozens of half finished projects sitting around before it gets dumped for the next new shiny?
- bitcharmer 6y ago
  Most of us, I guess. But we don't launch those products to millions of users before we loose interest in them.
  - enos_feedler 6y ago
    It is relative though. A million users to Google is like 10 users to us, right?