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Or the time someone leaves and goes to another job.
Or the time for a product to die.
Funny how they all seem to be correlated. /s
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> A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps How do they keep failing over and over, in the same way, when these failures are a well-known embarrassment? You'd think the CEO would either just ban development of new messaging apps or pick a winner and give it the same kind of care and feeding as GMail.
My guess is because things like that don't make any or much direct revenue, so they aren't going to get senior executives to want to take ownership and champion the thing. Killing a chat product that has always been a net loss for the company might not appear to be a failure.
> Killing a chat product that has always been a net loss for the company might not appear to be a failure.
Doing that once, yeah, doing that over and over, no so much.
At this point the smartest thing to do it just kill them all and definitively say: "No more, this is the end of Google chat apps."
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#173Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs with no hierarchical organization and an overreliance on search to find things. I have literally hundreds of thousands to millions of files on my local machines and have no trouble remembering where I put things. Drive can't seem to scale past a few dozen before it's confusing, useless, and apparently lossy. Remember when web servers woul…
Agreed. Every time I go to save a file I have to stop thinking like a techie and put my 'think like Google' hat on. My wife is the average, basic user. Windows and Linux filesystems she navigates with no issue. Google Drive? Confuses the heck out of both of us and I've been a techie my whole life.
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#174GPL should add a clause: "If you're a large enterprise making money off of Linux and provide services/products to Windows and Mac users but not the exact same to Linux users; your enterprise is no longer authorized to use or run Linux in any capacity.".
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#175Dropbox support sucks.
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#178It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed… https://killedbygoogle.com/ While this fosters new ideas…
* see google product
* create stealth startup to compete
* wait???
* pounce on userbase when Google crashes and burns
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I agree with you 100%. I just want something that stores files and works with SFTP and NFS out of the box. I get so annoyed every time I have to use S3 manually. However, there is a post on this site that has become infamous in which a commenter questions the need for Dropbox when stuff like SFTP already exists.
I’ve wondered how practical using Azure Files with SMB is. It also supports NFS. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/files-s...
SMB is absolutely terrible over latent connections.
I don't understand how SMB could work unless there was geographical replication to nodes closer to you, with some kind of load balancing to change the endpoint you're using to be closer to you.
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#180Google is a me too company now. Innovation left the company a long time ago. That is why I tell startups I invest in, not to worry at all if Google enters their space.
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The person you are replying to is not talking about politics. They meant "me too" as in "copycat", not "me too" as in the social/political movement.