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Yeah I'm just one person, but their confusing and chaotic approach to messaging apps and the Inbox vs GMail thing a few years ago were the two things what turne

by gedy 4y ago

Yeah I'm just one person, but their confusing and chaotic approach to messaging apps and the Inbox vs GMail thing a few years ago were the two things what turned me from respecting Google and interested in their new apps into believing the don't have any idea or care what they are doing and better off not trying out or depending on their offerings. (Thank goodness they haven't done same to maps and docs).

techdragon 4y ago
That’s a really good way to describe it. I no longer respect Google. Their core search engine is in decline, their cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors, they began weaponising open source as a recruitment pipeline, and they can deliver a product with any sort of expectation that it will last more than 12 months anymore… I have lost respect for them. I have gone from an enthusiastic Search and chrome and gmail user… I got into the invite only beta in the first six months! … to basically only caring when Google do things that affect the non-stuff I actually care about.
- brian_cunnie 4y ago
  > cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors I beg to disagree: I find AWS's UI the most confusing--I am showered with services I don't use & don't know what they do (Beanstalk? I have no idea what that is). I find that if I stick with VPC and EC2 I'm safe, but even then they throw some curve balls at you: for example, VPC is all about networking & IP addresses unless you're talking about Elastic IPs, in which case you need to go to EC2. Azure's interface is okay, but the sliding menus-thing throws me off. Google's is the cleanest UI IMHO. Not too many services, intelligently grouped. Although I've used AWS the longest & am used to its idiosyncrasies, I'm under no illusion that its UI well laid out.

by gedy 4y ago

techdragon 4y ago

That’s a really good way to describe it. I no longer respect Google. Their core search engine is in decline, their cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors, they began weaponising open source as a recruitment pipeline, and they can deliver a product with any sort of expectation that it will last more than 12 months anymore… I have lost respect for them. I have gone from an enthusiastic Search and chrome and gmail user… I got into the invite only beta in the first six months! … to basically only caring when Google do things that affect the non-stuff I actually care about.

brian_cunnie 4y ago
> cloud is innovative but useless and has the most confusing UI of the three major cloud vendors I beg to disagree: I find AWS's UI the most confusing--I am showered with services I don't use & don't know what they do (Beanstalk? I have no idea what that is). I find that if I stick with VPC and EC2 I'm safe, but even then they throw some curve balls at you: for example, VPC is all about networking & IP addresses unless you're talking about Elastic IPs, in which case you need to go to EC2. Azure's interface is okay, but the sliding menus-thing throws me off. Google's is the cleanest UI IMHO. Not too many services, intelligently grouped. Although I've used AWS the longest & am used to its idiosyncrasies, I'm under no illusion that its UI well laid out.