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OK but, is Google really trying to disrupt the guitar tuner market? This isn't them trying to disrupt an incumbent. It's a neat hack from a company with more
by bjt 5y ago
OK but, is Google really trying to disrupt the guitar tuner market?
This isn't them trying to disrupt an incumbent. It's a neat hack from a company with more money than they know what to do with.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoThe top result on the Play store for "Guitar Tuner" is GuitarTuna, which is around 200 MB in size if memory serves me well. The second result's reviews indicate that it's full of extremely disruptive ads. So whatever Google is trying to do, for me it has disrupted that "market" by providing an easy-to-find, clean alternative.
- jcoq 5y agoI've been using Guitar Tuna for years. It's extremely effective and I don't really notice the ads.
- asdff 5y agoNo, but they want permission to use your microphone.
- xeromal 5y agoIt's most likely from Google's dev time program where a dev gets to work on a pet project 20%(?) of their time. That's why a ton of new projects come out of google but get canned in a few years.
- harry8 5y agoDoes that still exist as a policy?
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoThe policy still exists. The practice is dying out, however.
- harry8 5y agoI don't understand. People would rather spend a day per week working on google's stuff than their own project?
- thesimon 5y agoWorking on your own projects won't get you promoted I would guess.
- mkr-hn 5y agoUnless that project is a messaging app.
- iamevn 5y agoProjects aren't typically scheduled to account for it in my experience. If I took that much time to work on something that's not an OKR then I'd just be falling behind.
- harry8 5y agoSo you totally can work on your own project for 20% of your time but you won't get 20% of your time to work on your project. Right. So the policy is dead with only a dishonest echo remaining..? Doesn't even qualify as evil anymore on google's standards, but when google hired freelance recruiters were ringing me several times a week it really would have. Those were the days, we used to think microsoft were horrible. And they were!