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> Leaving aside HN loving the idea of Big Tech being weakened by becoming Relatively Small Tech, I don’t see how this is in Alphabet’s or YouTube’s interest. W
by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Leaving aside HN loving the idea of Big Tech being weakened by becoming Relatively Small Tech, I don’t see how this is in Alphabet’s or YouTube’s interest.
What might instead generate more value is to spin out Google Workspaces (aka docs, slides, sheets, drive, etc.) It feels as if their business products are losing out to Microsoft, which IMO offer a greatly inferior collaboration experience for distributed teams.
To pick one concrete example Google Drive is poorly suited for storing business documents due to its hostility to hierarchy and poor tools for viewing and search. By contrast Sheets is amazing. We run our business on it. These product deserve a separate, innovative focus that does not treat document management as a search problem.