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It's like 12 or 13. I've never seen a company fail this much at something.. They need to create a Razzie just to give it to google for their total incompetence
by thefourthchime 4y ago
It's like 12 or 13. I've never seen a company fail this much at something.. They need to create a Razzie just to give it to google for their total incompetence at chat.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...
- dane-pgp 4y agoThat's a very comprehensive article, thank you, but I'm reminded of an earlier one from 2018 with the amusing title: "Google to simplify messaging strategy, will support only five messaging apps" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/google-promises-to-shut-down-two-of-its-seven-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/google-promises-to-s...
- orthoxerox 4y agoI remember reading this article and thinking, "okay, this is already absurd, things can't get any worse" and then there's another chat engine Google once used to have. And another. And it keeps going on.
- imglorp 4y agoIt's only failing if you define that as "not dominating the planet's chat", which has a bunch of externalities. Several of their chat products were decent and companies were able to run all their internal meeting rooms off them. What IS a failure is the thrash within that whole set of products. Adoption of new users via network effect is the activation energy and every flipflop halves their potential new market. If they had simply stayed on, say, hangouts and kept improving it, they would keep all those users they lost.