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Remembering the failure of Google+, I wonder if hostilely forcing a product to your users makes it less likely to succeed.
by arnaudsm 1y ago
Remembering the failure of Google+, I wonder if hostilely forcing a product to your users makes it less likely to succeed.
- mat_b 1y agoGoogle Buzz is a better example
- throwawayoldie 1y agoWas it that one or Google Wave that was supposed to become the dominant form of communication within 5 years? I don't remember much about either one.
- smileysteve 1y agoGoogle Wave is tangential to slack, discord, Facebook groups, and Whatsapp communities, arguably reddit communities... So they may have been on to something
- ryandrake 1y agoGoogle+ is a great example, because there was a very similar mindless push to integrate it into all of their products, by any means necessary. And then, when it fizzled, there was the inevitable engineering effort to rip it all out. I predict in a few years, when the AI fad has subsided, there will be a similar amount of engineering effort undertaken at all of these companies to pull out and sunset these expensive AI integrations...