Google's problem is they've virtually nothing (given their resources) to "commoditizing their complement". https://www.gwern.net/Complement https://www.gwern.ne

Google's problem is they've virtually nothing (given their resources) to "commoditizing their complement". https://www.gwern.net/Complement https://www.gwern.net/Complement Google's compliment is web sites. What have they done to make a web site easier to make? They even killed their RSS feed. They have released a bit of web tech, but their offerings are generally a bit sad or only solve Google problems (e.g. Go). If you want to distribute an .exe or .app, MS and Apple have released some pretty good tools to help. If you want to write a blog or make a simple web app, it's unlikely you're going to think "Google has some great stuff to help, and has awesome tools". Mozilla's web resources are better. Microsoft's web resources are better.