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That's the beauty of Google's spaghetti-at-the-wall approach, isn't it? To me, it's kind of a refreshing, child-like approach to things, with an investigative c
by joebadmo 15y ago
That's the beauty of Google's spaghetti-at-the-wall approach, isn't it? To me, it's kind of a refreshing, child-like approach to things, with an investigative curiosity and implicit acknowledgment of an ignorance of what will become important.
While I think Larry Page's new focus on focus is great, and I think most of their products are getting better because of it, I do get a bit scared that it comes at the cost of the explorative nature of the company in its youth.
- diminish 15y agoAgree so much. Android is a perfect toy Google has developed to disrupt the established players and stopped a 1984-like future in mobile. Neither Blackberry BES nor Apple's single-device behind a walled garden were for me; and Thanks to Android I have choice.
- beatle 15y agoYeah. A crappy choice. I would not be saying this if Android was such a beacon of software quality. Android is just Google's tool to serve users ads. Nothing more.
- bluemarc22 15y agoWow, awesome comment!
- bitwize 15y agoApple has a spaghetti-at-the-wall approach too. The thing is, they rigorously weed out non-working ideas and use the time and energy saved to apply extra polish to the working ones. The result is products that are just about as close to perfect as it is possible to be in an imperfect world. I see nothing like this sort of selection pressure going on at Google; accordingly, shoddy architectures like Android not only make the cut, but go on to be Really Big Things if they're good enough to accumulate network effects. Kinda like Windows and Office.
- mahyarm 15y agoSo how do they know that it sticks before they release it? I wouldn't think Zynga would of made money until they released it.
- rdouble 15y agoMaybe android is getting better but google reader and gmail got worse to the point where I switched to other software.