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G+ lost because Google forced G+ to every Google account. Post something to Youtube, you silently created a G+ post. Upload something to Picasa, you silently pu
by frik 11y ago
G+ lost because Google forced G+ to every Google account. Post something to Youtube, you silently created a G+ post. Upload something to Picasa, you silently published the photo to your G+ newsfeed, etc. - quite toxic. And have they learned from their Google Buzz (G+ predecessor)? Nope, same behavior.
I have somewhat similar feeling about the upcoming Win10 launch, and in near future a lot normal user will learn the hard way why they got Win10 in exchange for the current Win7/8 license.
Simply don't outsmart your user base.
- yuhong 11y agoI don't think Win10 is that bad. In fact I think they fixed the MS account OOBE that was bad in Win8.1, making the option to use a local account much more clear.
- davidcgl 11y agoG+ wanted to be a rendezvous for all social/sharing activities on Google, and it turned out that many users didn't like it. Would G+ have fared better if it didn't force G+ onto every Google property? Maybe? It's easy to do armchair analysis, but hindsight is 20/20.
- pjc50 11y agoNo, plenty of people said it would be terrible as soon as it was announced.
- threeseed 11y agoThere is no 'hindsight is 20/20' here. Everyone knew what Google was doing was monumentally stupid on so many grounds. There was widespread criticism over the real names policy and linking across properties.
- Retra 11y agoIf nobody had the foresight, they would have all been fine with joining Google and they wouldn't have failed. Google didn't have the foresight.