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In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teenagers have abandoned Facebook in favour of other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Just 51% of US individuals aged 13 to 17 say they use Facebook – a dramatic plunge from the 71% who said they used the social network in Pew’s previous study in 2015, when it was the dominant online platform. In this year’s study reported Facebook use was, acco…
Considering Facebook owns Instagram this sounds like great news for Facebook. Facebook the company owning the product teens are using instead of Facebook the product seems like a good long term strategy.
Yeah, not so great news for Facebook the company I'm afraid.
Being a social media user is age-independent, whereas one's teens is something they grow out of.
So, not only existing teens grow out of being teens (and eventually Snapchat users), but new teens won't necessarily grow into it to replace them.
Unlike older people, who value utility and what they already know more, new teens are just entering the social media field (and thus are more open to whatever might come next), and they are all about what's cool (so when a service loses it's cool it abandoned MySpace-like fast).
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Look what happened when people "lost trust" in Facebook. Shares are down 4% relative to a year ago. Is the company permanently crippled? Are people revolting and moving to alternate forms of social media? Fewer of the people immediately connected to your local graph are probably using Facebook. But that local loss of users gets completely offset by the new users they grow internationally. The idea that because thin…
> The idea that because things are some way now they will be forever thusly hasn't panned out historically. I'm not refuting (because I don't really know) but questioning this statement. Technological progress is a confounder, apart from that I think people and organizations behave as they always have. Okay, enslaving and murdering people has become harder - in the "modern" parts of the world at least. The "system" s…
>Technological progress is a confounder, apart from that I think people and organizations behave as they always have
This discussion (and thus the quip about "things being the same forever") is not about human nature, though. It's about consumer choices, and whether Google is really secure long term.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
The above poster said few, not zero. Google has killed off dozens upon dozens more officially launched projects.
the four listed are the biggest products in the world in their space. the first three would be multi billion dollar companies outside of Google. not to mention Search itself, Docs has become a fantastic product as has Photos. of course they have killed hundreds of potentially great projects (RIP Reader) but give the company their due - they know how to build products.
"the first three would be multi billion dollar companies
outside of Google"
However, "reasonably successful" is not good enough for them.
Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
#295Eventually I failed to see much difference if Inbox and GMail app. I just deleted Inbox because it seemed redundant. Gmail isn’t that good either with their auto categories. I always have to go thru multiple folders to find mail that I was expecting and arrived, never rally know which folder they’ve put it. Is like your mom came into your room and cleaned it but she misplaced stuff and you’d have to find it.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not linear. GCD haven't got traction (and billions of revenue) it might have now because of shutdown of some products like Reader. And that's oversimplified example actually. People's minds are not linear, especially when they make decisions. The only market when you can do well with raw numbers only is cheapest 10%, when all competition is about price, and customers have zero loyalty whatsoever.
GCD?
A typo, Google Cloud Platform.
Re: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
#297The new look Gmail has performed very poorly for me. Hanging for extended periods while changing views, and during search. I'm not sure why a UI refresh would have such an effect but I've been avoiding switching because of this
Make sure you don't have custom user-agents. I had the same problem and it was because the app was trying to use APIs that didn't exist on Firefox.
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My company switched from AWS to Azure without considering Google's Cloud at all, and the loss of trust is the reason.
Should have switched to bare metal, things like AWS cost a ton more than you realize, it just looks like a good deal because you have smaller cost up front. But in the long run managing your own systems at places like Softlayer can save you a bundle. EDIT: I don't care about downvotes, but if you are going to do it at least leave a comment of why you think I am wrong.
You're downvoted for saying "You, person I don't know, should have used a different solution because of reason X" without considering they thought of that when they made their decision.
It was in the phrasing, not in some defense of the "Cloud", which is overrated for existing businesses.
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Should have switched to bare metal, things like AWS cost a ton more than you realize, it just looks like a good deal because you have smaller cost up front. But in the long run managing your own systems at places like Softlayer can save you a bundle. EDIT: I don't care about downvotes, but if you are going to do it at least leave a comment of why you think I am wrong.
You're downvoted for saying "You, person I don't know, should have used a different solution because of reason X" without considering they thought of that when they made their decision. It was in the phrasing, not in some defense of the "Cloud", which is overrated for existing businesses.
I am universally saying you don't need things like AWS.
But I can see how that phrasing might warrant a down vote.