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> All in all, Google ended up paying less than $4B for what they had previously valued at $5B. A month ago WeWork was valued several times higher than it is today. It doesn't matter if you got a good deal on paper - what matters is if you got a good deal.
So thst begs the question, did Google make enough from licensing the patents or save enough on licensing from a potential competitor or getting sued?
Expect the Google fit app to have these branding changes over the coming years : Fit - > Fitbit -> Google Fitbit -> Android Fit -> Finally back to Google Fit in 2023
Oof. Goodbye Fitbit. Or, rather, welcome to the world where you're a pawn in internal politics. You may think you have a product but you don't. If your product survives (as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team), your product schedule will have to survive the interests of every other PA/team in Google. - You think you have software to run your products? Ha. The Android team will have a different opinion. - Even…
>You may think you have a product but you don't. I absolutely agree with everything. Here is the thing, total side topic - but Fitbit's product is really excellent! The packaging of the PCBs, the operating system, the tech, it's all really impressive. I know that means nothing in the larger scope, Google bought them for their data and mining potential. But the product is actually really cool. It appears to be simple,…
Oof. Goodbye Fitbit. Or, rather, welcome to the world where you're a pawn in internal politics. You may think you have a product but you don't. If your product survives (as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team), your product schedule will have to survive the interests of every other PA/team in Google. - You think you have software to run your products? Ha. The Android team will have a different opinion. - Even…
> “I actually agree with other commenters: Google just doesn't know what it's about anymore. It has no overriding vision.” it’s pretty apparent to me that after google finally got over wanting to be facebook, google now wants to be apple. and they’re desperately trying not to be microsoft, even though that’s what they mostly are. in the beginning, google had a unique identity (quirky & clever) and vision (organize th…
That's odd thing to call the biggest software company* in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_c...
* Alphabet
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Yes and no. Sundar has no more vision than Larry does yet somehow is paid $200m+ a year and in my mind is the most unjustifiably overpaid CEO by a huge margin. At least Larry founded the company and contributed to turning into the behemoth it is. Sunday is a random associate product manager who somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrome to somehow becoming CEO.
Under your theory, Steve Jobs still runs Apple.
Expect the Google fit app to have these branding changes over the coming years : Fit - > Fitbit -> Google Fitbit -> Android Fit -> Finally back to Google Fit in 2023
When did the quality of HN comments go down so much?
Expect the Google fit app to have these branding changes over the coming years : Fit - > Fitbit -> Google Fitbit -> Android Fit -> Finally back to Google Fit in 2023
Are you saying this because you know this or just to get a giggle from people reading? When did the quality of HN comments go down so much?
Oof. Goodbye Fitbit. Or, rather, welcome to the world where you're a pawn in internal politics. You may think you have a product but you don't. If your product survives (as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team), your product schedule will have to survive the interests of every other PA/team in Google. - You think you have software to run your products? Ha. The Android team will have a different opinion. - Even…
Isn't it an organization optimized for enabling engineers to increase leverage?
That's why things get rewritten into [language/framework du jour].
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Isn't selling your company with the data the same as selling your data?
It's true Google doesn't sell your data: they just rent it out a bit.
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I don't see how it could have been too late. Nokia switched to MS way before the acquisition. It wasn't successful for a lot of reasons and I don't think an earlier acquisition would have really changed that.
I didn't say the acquisition was too late, I said Microsoft pivoted too slowly in mobile.
Waiting years between updates with no news pushes away OEMs and ensures consumers forget you even exist.