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Defaulting to search or YouTube feels like a money / metrics grab. No longer displaying commute time to work, but you can check it on maps? So, they're removin
by smileysteve 3y ago
Defaulting to search or YouTube feels like a money / metrics grab.
No longer displaying commute time to work, but you can check it on maps? So, they're removing the assistant part into a search box.
- nostrademons 3y agoI suspect it's org politics - but yes, in search of money and metrics. Assistant alienated a lot of other departments from 2016-2020 with their rapid rise and rapid growth in headcount (and ability to push integrations through whether they were a good idea or not). Then they failed to make significant money, right into an economic environment where making money was prioritized much more highly than speculative researchey new markets. These changes are them trying to make themselves indispensable to other PA's metrics, so that when budgets are set, they can argue "You can't cut Assistant, look at the drop in searches & YouTube views that would result in." Same reason why they were hit harder in the layoffs than other more profitable products.