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> and whether Google has hurt its reputation as 'organizer of all the worlds information.' This is my biggest issue with Google, past the immediate concerns ab
by TillE 14y ago
> and whether Google has hurt its reputation as 'organizer of all the worlds information.'
This is my biggest issue with Google, past the immediate concerns about the Reader shutdown. Their new "focus" strategy sounds suspiciously like putting all their eggs in one G+ basket, regardless of whether it's a good fit for the problem at hand.
Spreading out lead them to create lots of good products that served all sorts of niches - the loudest outcry about Reader has come not from tech nerds, but from journalists of every stripe. Keep eliminating niche products, and soon enough it adds up to a large chunk of your audience, each of which had a different need that Google decided wasn't important enough to serve. There's value in diversity.
- olalonde 14y ago> Their new "focus" strategy sounds suspiciously like putting all their eggs in one G+ basket What makes you think that? Google has been killing projects since long before G+ existed. They also adopted their "focus strategy" before releasing G+. Is there any evidence that Reader was killed to benefit G+ in some way?
- arindone 14y agoIt's easy to say that from a philosophical point of view, but it's preposterous from a business point of view. In an organization like theirs working on 1000's of different things at once, you can't keep expanding horizontally; you have to eventually cut your losses on certain things and re-allocate resources to things that DO work and get ROI. Businesses, and pretty much any organized group, MUST prioritize their workload and not have a shit-show working on everything all at once.