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That kind of hubris always presages the fall. The failure of Wave, Google+, and things like this: Brin's flippant, cocky response to a valid criticism means th
by david927 15y ago
That kind of hubris always presages the fall. The failure of Wave, Google+, and things like this: Brin's flippant, cocky response to a valid criticism means that if I had Google stock, I would slowly start to sell.
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'd give my left nut to fail as hard as G+ has. 70M users in a couple months is the kind of failure I can get behind.
- suivix 15y agoThey aren't new users though. None of them are new to google.com, and most already have Google accounts. They are simply activating another Google service. It's a whole different thing if you launch a startup like Dropbox and get people to use it.
- redthrowaway 15y agoSo by that metric, if every gmail user used G+ it would still be a failure? If it captured 70% of the online population, it wouldn't be that impressive because those people originally used search? Wave was a failure, and it had plenty of Docs and Gmail users to draw from. G+ strikes me as a very different beast, and one that has already found its niche. It may not displace facebook, but it certainly seems to have eaten into Twitter's niche.
- majika 15y agoFailure of Google+? What?