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You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
The opposite end of this spectrum is a company supporting far too many different properties like Yahoo did. How do you strike the right balance?
Like hangout > chat, let's drop the existing feature of read receipt that is even more important in the remote/work world in a product geared toward business.
Let's do an integration of task & files in chat in gmail but not what's suppose to be the primary app the standalone chat.
Let's take 3 release to decide yes there is some usefulness to wireless scanning and we can put it as an advance option.
It's not just dropping produces, it's actually degradation of function as if just to bump up the changelog size.
You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
What a useful app. Reminds me of Airtable in some ways. I enjoy a good flexible table app any day. We're all tired of the obligatory "I wonder how long before Google deprecates this...;)" but I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product... 1M monthly users? 3M? ...xM? or that when a project actually reaches that point.
This is a really helpful comment and I like the nod to transparency. Thank you! Not sure we could get quite so concrete publicly (there are lots of unknowns and wouldn't want to make commitments we can't keep), but aligning goals between the business, team, and users/customers is a great idea and something we can improve on.
What surprises me, more than the ton of comments about Google's credibility, is that I suspect nobody even tried to get more than a superficial understanding of what the product is supposed to do and what differentiates it. Surely I can't be the first one to notice that you can't even find out what this product does? The value proposition is a series of images, but you can't look at any one image & absorb the details…
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You know Google has a serious credibility problem when half or more of the comments on tech sites covering product launches are questioning when Google will decide to randomly pull the plug.
Google Docs and Sheets already feels like abandonedware. I haven't seen any substantial changes in years.
Not sure when that was released, though!
I'd be extremely wary of adopting any new Google product given their tendency to abandon things that don't achieve immediate success.