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Google has barely released a successful product in 20 years.
by H8crilA 8mo ago
Google has barely released a successful product in 20 years.
- Hamuko 8mo agoI thought that the likes of Android, Google Docs, Google Translate, etc. were fairly successful. Chrome and ChromeOS also seem fairly popular too.
- gregable 8mo agoA lot of those are getting pretty close to 20 years ago.
- atlimar 8mo agoThis year: chromeos is 17 android is 18 chrome is 18 google docs is 20 google translate is 20
- stock_toaster 8mo agoIn retrospect, it is wild how good/successful google was 17-20 years ago!
- rvnx 8mo agoFew years ago, we had Google Bard, the ancestor of Gemini, which was supposed to be an AI LLM, and when you right-clicked the page, it was a fake page with hardcoded sentences in a .js file...
- staticman2 8mo ago> was supposed to be an AI LLM Are you claiming Bard wasn't an LLM???
- signatoremo 8mo agoNone of them looks like their original form, none would survive without google’s enormous investment.
- Yizahi 8mo agoDepend on the definition of the "product". For example some banal cloud storage in which everyone competes. And it's an "old" product, despite being invisibly improved behind the scenes, just like at any other provider. Google has pretty competitive storage AND they are fully abusing Android integration for AND they have pretty good bundling of that storage with other products, including, you've guessed it - LLM Gemini. So say a person is not a professional user of LLMs like a developer burning tokens in a dozen accounts simultaneously. A person has a phone and eventually memory runs out, so he buys a one click Google storage for 4 bucks. And suddenly he has Gemini Pro included too. So why pay 20 bucks to Anthropic, when Google costs 1/5 of that AND has other stuff bundled too? So maybe Google is lagging on truly new products (btw, does Gemini itself with its TPUs count as a new product? I'd say yes), but "old" products are entrenched enough to carry them and compete.
- browningstreet 8mo agoGoogle Drive is easily the worst of the desktop cloud storage options. It’s okay for Google Docs but not other files if that’s what you’re talking about..
- loloquwowndueo 8mo agoWhich one would you say is the best?
- browningstreet 8mo agoI'm back to Dropbox.
- TurdF3rguson 8mo agoI get 2TB (which I use) and AI Studio for $20, that's the best deal out there for me.
- thevillagechief 8mo agoIn a world where OneDrive exists?
- asdfman123 8mo agoGoogle is good at buying existing products and scaling them, which is exactly what they did with DeepMind.
- HardCodedBias 8mo agoDeepmind was their worst acquisition ever. It is a vanity project that burns cash.
- rvnx 8mo agoGoogle Cloud is good and successful. Except they can't implement billing hard caps, or pretend they can't.
- TurdF3rguson 8mo agoTheir API business model seems to be hope enough people accidentally go over free tier: $0 for the first 5000 monthly places lookups, $40 per 1000 after that
- cleaning 8mo agoNeither does AWS and you can argue they aren't good but they're objectively successful, so it doesn't seem like a good metric.
- Bnjoroge 8mo agoIm not sure what you consider successful. They've been struggling to get market share vs azure, and the product isnt that good. lots of rough edges, and piss poor support