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No but if you're Google you can put it on literally every android phone quite quickly.
by sebzim4500 3y ago
No but if you're Google you can put it on literally every android phone quite quickly.
- newleaf 3y agoNot just that, but you can put it in front of every Google Maps user.
- vasilipupkin 3y agoyou can, but I am used to using uber app to call an uber.
- mcny 3y ago> you can, but I am used to using uber app to call an uber. yes, waze had 100M+ users and still failed to have a successful launch with waze carpool. part of the problem is Google is too successful. If a business makes USD 10M a year and takes up a month worth of attention every year from the Alphabet CEO, they will probably shut it down before we can say Google Product Graveyard.
- dweekly 3y agoWhen I worked at Google our team came up with a data product that would have been pure margin and $75m/yr with customers lined up -- and I couldn't find a VP interested in cashing the checks because it wasn't on their annual OKRs. Google is a great company but it has never been truly hungry because it has never faced an existential threat.
- stickyricky 3y agoWhat's the product? Asking for a friend...
- ghaff 3y agoIt's not just OKRs. That $75m/year consumes attention all up and down and across Google. Lots of things that are slam dunks at a small or medium company are just more trouble than they're worth at most really large firms.
- hackernewds 3y ago$75m seems like small fish, because it's a really poor monetization $/user, and opportunity cost. Thousands of ideas could generate that at Google. Counterexample, Google Brain didn't make much money, but they still invested in it and spit out Transformers.
- hackernewds 3y agoare you shouting "The Innovator's Dilemma"?
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- noah_buddy 3y agoHello, antitrust litigation! Before my time, but what you have just described is what got Microsoft in big trouble in the ‘90s.
- hackernewds 3y agoGoogle photos? Google drive? Google Fi?