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I've seen it regress a lot in the last two years. I have a Google Spreadsheet that I used to track investments I have in various markets. Three months ago Goog
by ulfw 3y ago
I've seen it regress a lot in the last two years.
I have a Google Spreadsheet that I used to track investments I have in various markets. Three months ago Google stopped showing any stock quotes for ETFs in Europe. No explanation, just 'f u, we showed them for years now all your spreadsheet breaks'. I had to help myself with getting some quotes from Yahoo News via script but it's half-baked.[1]
Google doesn't care about it's products and anyone who thinks different hasn't opened their eyes.
Btw their lack of quality and care is not new for Google Docs/Spreadsheets [2] Issues keep popping up but are usually fixed after a while. This time they just stopped bothering.
I wish Google had Product leaders who actually cared about the quality of their products rather than just launching new features that make a splash and then slowly wither on a vine. Fewer features I could actually rely on would go a long way.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlesheets/comments/13i2gf6/googlefinance_not_working_for_some_european/ https://www.reddit.com/r/googlesheets/comments/13i2gf6/googl...
[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/76403135?pli=1 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/76403135?pli=1
- dna_polymerase 3y agoI just wished they had product people that worked outside the tech bubble. I need a way to write a letter to multiple people without some scripting magic or third-party add-ons.
- ulfw 3y agoThey don't. They're famous for wanting Product people with engineering backgrounds, which is silly. That's not Product, that's just engineering/project management then. Product is way more all-encompassing and focuses more on people, user's wishes, behaviours, competitor's behaviours etc etc, none of which is relevant to engineering.