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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.
I've switched to Brave and duckduckgo. They are evil and I try avoid them at all costs. AMP is a good enough reason.
No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely. I used…
This drove me nuts with my Nest Minis until I tried out Apple's Homepod.
People hate on Apple for moving slow in the "connected home" space, but my Homepod sounds great, can distinguish between my wife and I, and can handle BOTH personal and work calendars for the two of us. I'll take the polish over my actual use cases, rather than rough edges around a wider set of uses, most of which I never will use.
And neither of us use iCloud for email! It blows my mind that a Google can offer email/calendars for both personal and work use can tie both to you as an individual, but _somehow_ can't make your "smart" speaker do the same.
> It’s amazing how they have four monopolies and only monetize one of them. They appear to me to have begun monetizing google maps. And it is awful.
What are the four monopolies?
Sounds like your crystal ball malfunctioned on that forecast. I'll recalibrate it for you but will forecast it for this decade:
In 2020, I predict that by 2030, Fuchsia OS would be one of the most popular desktop and mobile OSes in the world and will replace Chrome OS and Android. It was fast, lightweight, and $0.
There you go. That makes much more sense according to my crystal ball.
Oh my god is it fast and snappy.
GChat within GMail kept me in the browser, but they ruined it. Now I use the standalone Chat "app", which is some webframe crap, but hey, corporate standard.
Big Sur is like iPadOS and I always use native apps on iPadOS/iOS.
Can't imagine what a truly native Figma, Slack, JIRA would be like.
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Seems like it is easier for a smaller group of capable people to make a big change than a giant org of diverse talented people from different backgrounds
A small focused team of diverse talented people from different backgrounds, can make the biggest-impact. Focus=speed. Focus is what's missing at Google, and why they have such a sprawling staff and politics.
I'm sure these alternatives work for some, but I really don't find "Hey" a suitable alternatives to Gmail, nor "Notion" to Google Docs. I think the innovation and updating in those Google products has stagnated a lot, but they're still better for actual work and business than the new hip things.
They 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.
My very disconnected from technology father uses Duck-Duck-Go now because of that. (subsequently, he 'dropped using facebook' because they track you across the web. His solution to beat their tracking is to use DDG to look up facebook.com and log-in through the link it presents. Not sure of the logic there.)