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A new CEO would be good, as long as that person has a sense of leadership and can set long-term strategic goals by clamping down on promotion-case projects that
by the_snooze 4y ago
A new CEO would be good, as long as that person has a sense of leadership and can set long-term strategic goals by clamping down on promotion-case projects that get abandoned on short notice.
Google strikes me as a place with too much money and no focus on how to productively use it, and now there are viable competitors popping up to challenge them.
- anonyfox 4y agoat least the "too much money" part will probably stop soon, with social commerce + chatbots eating into search revenue
- tabtab 4y agoTheir idea was to be a giant "start-up factory", create tons of interesting ideas and see what sticks: the shotgun approach. But so far not enough are sticking, and their reputation for pulling the plug early makes people not want to risk depending on their platforms and products because they fear being left high and dry. Microsoft has been generally reasonable in that area, and thus seen as a safer bet. (I know, MS is annoying in many ways, but so are their competitors.) I'd like to see Google give MS a run for their money. For one, create a state-ful GUI markup standard that's business-oriented, not crap like Bootstrap. Second, open source key products so users don't fear getting the plug pulled. (The GUI browser/pluggin could be based on the Tk or Qt kits to avoid reinventing the GUI wheel.)