alt Hacker NewsGoogle has always had great tech - their problem is the product or the perseverance, conviction, and taste needed to make things people want.
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villgax • today at 3:54 PM
Fuschia or me?
Google has always had great tech - their problem is the product or the perseverance, conviction, and taste needed to make things people want.
Fuschia or me?
Their incentive structure doesn't lead to longevity. Nobody gets promoted for keeping a product alive, they get promoted for shipping something new. That's why we're on version 37 of whatever their chat client is called now.
I think we can be reasonably sure that search, Gmail, and some flavor of AI will live on, but other than that, Google apps are basically end-of-life at launch.