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Re Salesforce: we were evaluating them, and I discovered you have to pay extra if you want non-company customers. I realized it wasn't a ploy for extra money, t
by elchief 14y ago
Re Salesforce: we were evaluating them, and I discovered you have to pay extra if you want non-company customers. I realized it wasn't a ploy for extra money, they just hadn't used the Party model, and thus had to do extra work to have individual and company customers. We didn't go with them.
I have a feeling the best technical talent still goes to big blue for the "impress mom" rep and R&D, or NSA for the spook factor
- fidotron 14y agoMy take is Google have acted as a talent black hole. They have absorbed such a massive proportion of the top talent over the last few years it's starting to cause a serious problem to their competition, such as the iOS Maps business.
- grogs 14y agoApple still has a reputation/image plenty good enough to attract good talent. I assume they just don't invest as much. Hardware and marketing is a much bigger part of their business.
- majormajor 14y agoThe big differences I've seen between Google and iOS Maps are in the data-cleanup aspect, not the technical aspect. That doesn't take top tech talent, it just takes a lot of man hours (or truly spectacular tech talent to come up with algorithms that don't need the cleanup, but Google isn't there yet themselves).
- mahyarm 14y agoThe iOS maps problem is a dataset problem mostly. Google has a huge head start in that department. That is not a talent problem.