That’s an interesting hypothesis but doesn’t explain how Google consumer products suck too yet their cloud offering and in-house made HW is fairly high class.

That’s an interesting hypothesis but doesn’t explain how Google consumer products suck too yet their cloud offering and in-house made HW is fairly high class. Similarly there’s plenty of sloppy in house software at any large company and they still produce good products in areas that matter to them (eg radar at Apple is both terrible and amazing, their internal directory app was a mess, etc).