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>Google has never had a successful product that people pay for. Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.
by mistercow 14y ago
>Google has never had a successful product that people pay for.
Pretty sure people pay for AdWords.
- estel 14y agoAnd despite their supply problems, the Nexus 4/7 are top quality products.
- bergie 14y agoThe supply problems seem to be solved now, BTW. I've been able to order several Nexus devices in the last couple of weeks, each arriving within two-three days of the order. Except the one DHL broke on the way, of course...
- ocean12 14y agoNo, the 4 suffers from horrendous battery life and it's camera is very 2010.
- pook1e 14y agoWeird, I must be imagining the 16+ hours of battery life I've been getting nearly daily for the past 3 and a half months. I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.
- ihuman 14y agoAnd android, but people pay for it indirectly.
- unwind 14y agoYeah, that was my thought as well. First, I explained it with "the author means a hardware product", but then he immediately said that Apps where almost a product that people pay for. So, uh, I guess the ad network just doesn't count, since it's "only ads", or something. It seems to work fantastically well though, both practically and of course economically for Google, and of course it must be seen as being a product at his point. So, I guess at the end it's just a rant. :)
- roc 14y agoThat just begs the question of whether marketers are actually people.
- coopdog 14y agoNot to mention Nexus phones (sold out for a while and highly regarded), Chromebooks and Apps for your Domain (enterprise gmail, etc) which is extremely popular
- slurry 14y agoFirst rule of internet tech blagging: desktop/consumer space is the only thing that matters. See: Linux everywhere on servers and embedded devices, internet still obsessing about whether "grandma" can use it to play solitaire. See also: PHP coders complaining that Java is too slow, because one time they tried to start up Eclipse. Google has never made anything that this guy and his friends, have paid for, therefore failure.