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Google+ suffers from the fact that it refers to two different things. One is an identity system - your Google+ account is your identity. The other is a social n
by vertex-four 13y ago
Google+ suffers from the fact that it refers to two different things. One is an identity system - your Google+ account is your identity. The other is a social network, which your identity is tied to.
The thing is, because of the "your Google+ account is your identity" perspective, it seems obvious from the point of view of Google's developers that all their social services should depend on it. But from everyone else's perspective, they don't want to sign up for a new social network.
- teleclimber 13y agoThat's a good observation. I never thought of it that way.
- saurik 13y agoGoogle already had a shared identity / profile mechanism that all of their products used (or migrated to after acquisition) (with the exception of YouTube, though you could tie your YouTube account to your Google account and log in via Google still anyway).