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Ask HN: Which was the last consumer product that Google did right?
Was it really Gmail? The rest of their successful products were for businesses.
Can't remember the last consumer web product that Google succeeded.
Yeah, maybe YouTube, but that was an acquisition.
Android, yeah, that's massively successful. Anything else?
- dougabug 12y agoWasn't Android also an acquisition?
- orian 12y agoIt was: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-android-for-its-mobile-arsenal http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...
- factorialboy 12y agoYes, but its arguable. You can claim that Google shaped Android as we know it today. Can't make the same claim for YouTube.