I was just talking about the FAANG companies with a few of my buddies over a couple of beers just last week! Here's the gist for how the conversation went. Goo

I was just talking about the FAANG companies with a few of my buddies over a couple of beers just last week! Here's the gist for how the conversation went. Google. When was the last time you remember anybody being excited about anything Google did? The biggest success Google has had is turning Google into a verb that's synonymous with web search - whether people are using Google, DDG or Bing they're "Googling" something. Even Go and Kubernetes are quite old ideas now and Samsung is Android in most consumer's minds. Seems like Google's heyday was 10 years ago. Netflix. They solved the problem of the uninterrupted video streaming to tens of millions of subscribers. A lot of modern DevOps practices came from Netflix. Now everyone and his brother has a streaming service. It's no longer a technology problem but a content problem, and Disney is the king of content. Why would you want to work at Netflix today? Facebook. I'd be concerned about no one ever hiring me if I had Facebook on my CV. Even so, like the other companies in FAANG they seem to have peeked. Amazon. There are still a lot of problems to be solved in logistics and distribution, not to mention there's a lot of work in their AWS services. Amazon seems like a place to work where you're still solving relevant problems. Their ultimate goal is to be the Walmart of online shopping and to do it cheaper than their brick-and-mortar rivals can. Apple. At least you know there will always be incremental mods to be made to Mac OS, iOS, iPad OS, Watch OS and TV OS! You might even get the chance to work on the "next gadget" OS! Or some other service. Seems better for the hardware-minded than for us software folks. Bottom line - seems like the FAANG companies, with the exception of Amazon and possibly Apple, have lost their bite! We came to the conclusion that Microsoft is doing more interesting things today in 2022 than most of the FAANG companies are. We also all know people working for small, unheard-of companies that are doing really interesting things. Back to your question - why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O? Because it's not aimed at a technical audience and they work to make it as entertaining as possible considering you're dealing with a bunch of geeks doing the presentations.