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Wish that company would just fail already. Thank god openai is dominating the next chapter in technology
If you were making a joke I applaud you and apologize for my whoosh.
Google has been a constant part of my life from early 2000's and I'm grateful to them for providing so many useful products. Most of them were awesome and worked fully without annoying ads or subscriptions. They will come with something new (usually unannounced) and I will be so excited to try it. Technically, they would almost work from day one. Needless to say, I was a Google fanboi during the first decade of the c…
I came here expecting to see this thread completely filled with the usual Google hate and was pleasantly surprised to find this here instead. Thank you! I'm fully in agreement with most here that the modern Google is a danger to the internet, but it's pleasant to be reminded that this wasn't always the case. It's a bittersweet anniversary, so let's take the sweet with the bitter.
Love them or hate them, their impact on the internet and the world is unparalleled - Both positive and negative impact, but mostly positive.
Positive impact: Google maps The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure
I'm not trying to be negative, just don't see where the praise is coming from, it's a crowded market.
I honestly think the world is a poorer place for having had a single US company dominate so many areas of digital technology for so long. I hope that in another 25 years giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple and so on are just small players in a globally inter-operable, open and diverse technological world.
I would argue that a strong unified platform (Windows, the web, whatever) is good for user and developer experience.
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Positive impact: Google maps The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure
It's not as if Google invented the idea of a website the plots directions. Sure their product was better than all the rest, especially once they started purchasing satellite imagery, but Bing and Nokia Here were not that far behind, not to mention the traditional GPS players. I'm not trying to be negative, just don't see where the praise is coming from, it's a crowded market.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Positive impact: Google maps The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure
It's not as if Google invented the idea of a website the plots directions. Sure their product was better than all the rest, especially once they started purchasing satellite imagery, but Bing and Nokia Here were not that far behind, not to mention the traditional GPS players. I'm not trying to be negative, just don't see where the praise is coming from, it's a crowded market.
I can assure you they were. I worked at Microsoft through the entire Windows Phone era and used the devices from the Samsung Focus through the Lumia 950.
They were WAY behind. Traffic data, road closure data, what lane you should be in to make your turn data. Street view, business hours, voice-guided turn by turn navigation - they were way behind in all those areas the entire time and it was heartbreaking. I loved Windows Phone the platform, but maps were at least as strong a reason as apps for me finally giving up.
Google has been a constant part of my life from early 2000's and I'm grateful to them for providing so many useful products. Most of them were awesome and worked fully without annoying ads or subscriptions. They will come with something new (usually unannounced) and I will be so excited to try it. Technically, they would almost work from day one. Needless to say, I was a Google fanboi during the first decade of the c…
I came here expecting to see this thread completely filled with the usual Google hate and was pleasantly surprised to find this here instead. Thank you! I'm fully in agreement with most here that the modern Google is a danger to the internet, but it's pleasant to be reminded that this wasn't always the case. It's a bittersweet anniversary, so let's take the sweet with the bitter.