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Imagine being a new manager/vp/whatever there... do you want to go to a shareholders meeting and say "this was a great year, we mainatained all the same stuff,
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Imagine being a new manager/vp/whatever there... do you want to go to a shareholders meeting and say "this was a great year, we mainatained all the same stuff, because it's working great already!"... or do you want to say "we've unvailed a totally new, totally better chat platform, with millions of new users, and gajillions of new chat threads!"?
Sadly, the same is happening at other tech firms, where only something "new" gets praised, and we end up with all the icons looking the same, and good products killed (just count the number of chat/communication services from google).
- swiley 5y agoAt this point I'm pretty convinced large organizations cannot build good proprietary software.
- MiddleEndian 5y ago>just count the number of chat/communication services from google It seems google has merged Hangouts back into gmail for some reason.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoWhat happened to Allo? And Duo? Or is duo just for video and hangouts for chat without video? Google meet? ..to just name a few, and forget things like google wave...
- codeptualize 5y agoThis is so on point. People do things to make themselves look good without care for the product, user, or even company success sometimes. I still find it puzzling that a bunch of people without actual product nor technical knowledge and experience dictate how products get build and evolve. Ego driven development.
- wruza 5y agoBeauty is in the eye of the shareholder.