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Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree. I just don't really buy his "100% competitor focused" statement. Isn't Google X and moonshot projects serve as Google's innovation hub?
those aren`t part of google any more.
They've also been massively cut back on, and anything that doesn't look like a sure path to profitability has been killed by the CFO, Ruth Porat.
Re: Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree. I just don't really buy his "100% competitor focused" statement. Isn't Google X and moonshot projects serve as Google's innovation hub?
Those things exist, but are they successful?
I mean they literally just announced a new company that graduated their incubator.
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#24Why was he still there, after 13 years? He should have been able to retire ages ago, or if he wants to keep working, should have gone somewhere innovative half a decade ago.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve Yegge is a widely respected programmer who is also a bit known for making big predictions about the future of tech and generally being (directionally) correct about them.
Is there a list of his predictions somewhere?
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#26I’m afraid his comments on not because my customer focussed enough jibe with my experience of Google. Google has done great UX, but two examples of dreadful customer apps are Google Groups and the Google Admin interface. I have to daily make routine changes to accounts and Google Admin is so unbelievably slow that I curse it every time I have to login to it (which is incredibly frequently). The UI is slow, non-intuit…
Google Groups has been on life support for 15+ years. If they knew what they were doing it could have been a Reddit killer integrated into a functioning G+.
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#27Once a company attains majority market share, it's not in their best interest to disrupt the market anymore.
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#28Once a company attains majority market share, it's not in their best interest to disrupt the market anymore.
Re: Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused
#29Surprised that a programmer quitting is covered by the financial press.
Does it get clicks? It is press
Re: Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused
#30> becoming "100% competitor-focused" and said the company "can no longer innovate." I understand that from a nowadays developer perspective, innovation is held in high regard and rightfully so. However, NO ONE can innovate constantly and forever. A competition race such as the cloud pricing Google vs. Amazon he mentioned is actually a good thing for customers from a economic standpoint. At some point, all companies h…
However, NO ONE can innovate constantly and forever. A competition race such as the cloud pricing Google vs. Amazon he mentioned is actually a good thing for customers from a economic standpoint. There was recently an article on HN that claimed that the cost of starting a new business group at Amazon was amazingly low, and that the process was amazingly fast. Basically, you get the people together/get people hired, a…
Companies change as they get bigger because of increasing risk. The company has more value and making big gambles risky ventures with a large company starts to become irresponsible.