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Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

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Re: Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

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Post by chanmad29 »

To me, Google seems like a company completely run by engineers, and perhaps these techies in their silos compete so much, that they do want to "integrate" their stuff with broader teams. Like say, Waze team does not want it's features integrated into GMaps. How else is there so little order? A complete opposite of Apple it seems.

Re: Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

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Post by mikestew »

I'd love to know the internal strategy, assuming there is any. Because my first question before allowing a FitBit acquisition would be, "how do I know you're not just going to soon abandon your new toy, as was done with WearOS?" I mean, Google had a serviceable OS, that they just seem to have given up on.

Re: Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

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Post by Judgmentality »

chanmad29 wrote: post #3

To me, Google seems like a company completely run by engineers, and perhaps these techies in their silos compete so much, that they do want to "integrate" their stuff with broader teams. Like say, Waze team does not want it's features integrated into GMaps. How else is there so little order? A complete opposite of Apple it seems.

Google is very much a company run by PMs. It's just the PMs are rewarded for launching products, and not maintaining them. In other words, the larger the Google graveyard, the more bonuses are being handed out. People are doing what they're being incentivized to do.

Google's culture is fundamentally broken. I don't think it's possible for them to fix this. I'll probably take a short position on Google in the medium future.

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