Owning the software they build doesn't seem to scale.
Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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#12I find it interesting how much of that article talks about features, but is about fashion and brand identification.
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#13Microsoft has a new clear mission: The Cloud.
That's a clear mission?
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#14Google has a clear mission and it's advertising, duh
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#15Google is only good at search. The only reason why I use everything else they create is because of their massive distribution, market penetration and inter-operability.
Thankfully there are solid alternatives in certain areas like fore example using iPhone instead of Android.
But for everything else I don't see a massive migration happening any time soon. Notion, Hey.com, DuckDuckGo are all niche products. My dad has Gmail and I can assure that's going to be the case for ever. He is never going to find out what Hey.com is. Even if he does he is not even going to consider it.
Google didn't blew a ten-year lead on anything.
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#16>I’m a long shareholder of Google. It’s amazing how they have four monopolies and only monetize one of them.
Okay, but we don't want Google as a monopoly... or do we?
Breaking up the monopoly means throwing away the ten-year lead.
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#17I am getting tired of these google articles. I know how this will go, users will pat themselves for using duckduckgo, open street maps, firefox and fastmail anytime now.
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#18Google has a clear mission and it's advertising, duh
exactly this. The only reason the other services exist is to feed more data into the advertising (search?) machinations. Because the company is so myopically focused on Advertising dollars and everything else as loss leaders(or under monetized), they are unable to see a potential reversal of roles where the other products become ends unto themselves
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#19They also lost the trust of their users. They didn't drop the "don't be evil" for nothing..
Is that actually true though? I've seen more and more regular people outside tech circles dismiss Facebook but Google? Not so much. In fact, outside of HN I haven't seen many complaints at all.
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#20> At WWDC, Apple shared Safari stats
> I started using HEY last week
refreshing to see a person who 's not suggestable and easily swayed by fads