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Here are just a few examples: - Keyhole (now Google Maps) - Android Inc. - Motorola Mobility - GrandCentral (now Google Voice) - NeXT - Siri In general,
by cloudwalking 13y ago
Here are just a few examples:
- Keyhole (now Google Maps)
- Android Inc.
- Motorola Mobility
- GrandCentral (now Google Voice)
- NeXT
- Siri
In general, an acquired company initially became successful by bringing value to consumers. When that company is acquired, it gets more resources to bring more value to customers.
- eridius 13y agoGoogle Voice is effectively a dead product, isn't it? Doesn't seem that favorable to me.
- ariwilson 13y agoIt's kept working for the last 3 years being awesome... Doesn't seem that dead to me.
- RALaBarge 13y agoI keep my 10 year old cell phone number alive and well on voice.google.com, it works great.
- possibilistic 13y agoI use it every single day. I wouldn't call it dead. We'll see if Google tries to wholly replace it with hangouts. I wouldn't be mad unless it were missing features.
- ars_technician 13y agoDead from a development perspective. I've had the same bug on the android client where voicemails play the first second or so and then stop, requiring me to click play again.
- eridius 13y agoDead meaning Google has put it out to pasture and will eventually kill it for good.
- 91bananas 13y agoDead in the sense that there has not been feature addition one for several years, yes.
- njharman 13y agoThat is probably best acquisition outcome. Most companies buy something good then change it until it sucks.
- Encosia 13y agoThe best acquisition outcome is something like Android or Kinect, definitely not watching GrandCentral stagnate for years after acquisition.
- robotresearcher 13y agoKinect was not an acquisition. MS licensed the device from PrimeSense. Apple bought the company recently.
- FireBeyond 13y agoExcept for one feature that users have been screaming for, since near day one: MMS support. And not in a hacked "if you're with TMo/Sprint, you -might- be able to get an email with the MMS in a format that's not reply-able" (and even that, only recently).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Google Voice is effectively a dead product, isn't it? Voice might be dead as a brand; Google's unification of communications trend might mean that the technology and functionality will eventually be merged into Hangouts.
- nickm12 13y agoYes, Google Voice as a separate product is definitely going away. Its functionality will be subsumed by Hangouts, but nothing about that transition is clear to users.
- gwern 13y agoDon't forget Translate. It actually early on was an out-of-house service, but they kept buying companies and hiring people to work on it, and it got massively better. (So a lot like Keyhole/Maps: they took something it would cost you thousands of dollars a month for (literally, for Keyhole access), made it free, and made it better.)
- kevinjones 13y agoAlso Wordly (became Google Docs)
- stevewillows 13y agoGrand Central's acquisition was great for Americans and the few of us Canadians who were grandfathered in, but outside of the US (and Alberta for some reason), we lost a great service.
- krzyk 13y agoKeyhole became Google Earth, not Maps (they were created in-house)