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How does Google not recognize the doom loop they’re entering with these decisions? 1. Google has already made it tremendously difficult for any product of thei
by addicted 3y ago
How does Google not recognize the doom loop they’re entering with these decisions?
1. Google has already made it tremendously difficult for any product of theirs to succeed. They could have a product that’s extremely successful by any reasonably measure, but not at Google scale, in which case they kill it. So the standard of success a product needs to reach at Google is already ridiculously high.
2. Because Google makes so many products and has such high standards, they also kill a lot of products (and services). Which means they’re surely forming a reputation of introducing products to the market that will not survive. Which surely must be a drag on the initial uptake of every product as many people aware of Google’s history are unwilling to invest their time and resources using it. So in addition to the high standards to succeed, there’s also a significant drag in usage caused by the high likelihood of the product being killed.
Both of which lead to more products being killed which leads to future products being less likely to reach success and more likely to be killed and so on.
- andreif 3y agoI would agree about Reader, but Jamboard is not something I will miss. There are a lot better alternatives.
- jjoonathan 3y agoBecause the people in charge of recognizing problems in the current system got where they are due to the current system.
- hot_gril 3y agoBecause their real money-makers still make money.
- philistine 3y agoThe only thing left is stuff that happens in the here and now. You give Google money, they show your ads now. Anything with any permanence gets shut down eventually, so people don't fall for it. Had Stadia only offered subs without having to buy the games, I'm sure it would still be around.
- nnurmanov 3y agoThe best thing they could do is to open source it. I could use it in my projects and I don’t want to start from scratch. Anyone happens to know Jamboard product managers? What do they think about open sourcing it?