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Google Engineer's Controversial Call to Ignore Criticism Rock Community
- ggm 3y agoI think it's not that unusual for people to caucus a bit inside a group when faced with criticism. Not that it doesn't often get (and deserve) a bit of shellacking. Just: this isn't that uncommon. "ok lets stop everything we're doing, re-group and see if we made a mistake" requires a lot of willingness higher up the food chain. Since we're talking about the fundamentals of how Google makes income (selling ads and info about people) you would think the highups were pretty strong on "nope: carry on" So "rocks community" is a bit meh. How can anyone be surprised that criticism is not causing MASSIVE rethink on this proposal? And "ignore criticism" likewise. I mean can we not name another 4-5 major FAANG who basically ignore criticism of their bottom line model? Apple didn't react fast to magsafe removal, the touchbar, keyboardgate. Amazon is completely dis-interested in the UI feedback on their website: They care about the regulator oversight of their marketplace. Facebook did not pay much attention to criticisms about WhatsApp, or the recent meta fuse-the-accounts thing. And so on. hell, signal didn't pay much attention to "you're doing it wrong" input.