The problem is that many good ideas only look good in hindsight. In 15 years, we'll either say "Fuchsia was a brilliant move, I'm so glad my home runs on that

The problem is that many good ideas only look good in hindsight. In 15 years, we'll either say "Fuchsia was a brilliant move, I'm so glad my home runs on that OS" or we'll say "Remember Fuchsia? lol". Here's what I mean. Acquisitions by Google in 2005: Reqwireless (mobile ads, merged with google analytics); Dodgeball (social networking, later Google Latitude); Akwan (Search tech); Skia (graphics library); Phatbits (Google Desktop); allPAY (???); bruNET (???); Android (cheap OS for mobile devices). In 2005, which of these were going to change the world?