No more cool apps that we can browse via google labs
Google Labs no more
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Google Labs no more
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#3I can't help but feel that this reflects a change in the mindset of Google – getting further and further from its scrappy upstart roots which are now long-since gone...
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#4RIP Google Sets :(
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#5What is happening to Google? I almost feel like it's going through a transformation like Walter White.
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#6I get the feeling that the bean counters are taking over Google and slashing off everything that doesn't have obvious monetization potential.
I mean, I know great people who work there, but overall it seems like they're turning into Microsoft circa 2000 - they own the industry, they buy startups and kill the products made by about half of them. Some of their products are great, but a lot of it is just an obvious monopoly enabled money grab.
I wish this wasn't the case.
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#7It was the fragmentation of Google that made it so amazing. So many wonderful discoveries came from experimentation, and labs was a wonderful way to organize them. Disappointing.
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#8Notice that the shutdown of all these projects are happening on Larry's watch. Maybe it's a sharpened focus on ideas that "matter", but Google needs to try more things not less.
From today's announcement about Q3 results, they still get a huge chunk of their income from advertising. They are dominant, but without another angle they are just asking to be disrupted.
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#9I get the feeling that the bean counters are taking over Google and slashing off everything that doesn't have obvious monetization potential. I mean, I know great people who work there, but overall it seems like they're turning into Microsoft circa 2000 - they own the industry, they buy startups and kill the products made by about half of them. Some of their products are great, but a lot of it is just an obvious mono…
You would never seen something like "Labs" from Apple, and everyone applauds them for "focus".
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#10I get the feeling that the bean counters are taking over Google and slashing off everything that doesn't have obvious monetization potential. I mean, I know great people who work there, but overall it seems like they're turning into Microsoft circa 2000 - they own the industry, they buy startups and kill the products made by about half of them. Some of their products are great, but a lot of it is just an obvious mono…
You would never seen something like "Labs" from Apple, and everyone applauds them for "focus".
Apple did have "labs." One of the first thing Steve Jobs did when he returned was shut it down.