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Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#11

What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.

I'd expect that their own videochat solution changes every year or so.

Yet another crappy one.

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#12
post #3

What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.

But then Alphabet risks that Hangout could become as good as Zoom & Slack combined. The golden rule is no Betabets by Alphabet.

It's frustrating because Google Hangouts used to be great, and then Google purposefully started cannibalizing their own platform.

I really want to know what goes on within Product Management at Google, because looking from the outside in I cannot imagine anything other than sheer incompetence.

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#15

What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.

You need to be able to test the competition. A former head of IE used Netscape as his principal browser to stay informed of how it worked.

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#17

What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.

It's google, so probably they have at least 3 and one of them will be deprecated every year

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#18
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then Alphabet risks that Hangout could become as good as Zoom & Slack combined. The golden rule is no Betabets by Alphabet.

It's frustrating because Google Hangouts used to be great, and then Google purposefully started cannibalizing their own platform. I really want to know what goes on within Product Management at Google, because looking from the outside in I cannot imagine anything other than sheer incompetence.

The only way to get promoted at Google is to launch new things.

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

#19

What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.

Some employees had it installed on corp devices, maybe to connect with their friends and families. Google has banned even installing that app on corp devices. Nobody used it for corp work.

Re: Google bans Zoom from employees' computers

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then Alphabet risks that Hangout could become as good as Zoom & Slack combined. The golden rule is no Betabets by Alphabet.

It's frustrating because Google Hangouts used to be great, and then Google purposefully started cannibalizing their own platform. I really want to know what goes on within Product Management at Google, because looking from the outside in I cannot imagine anything other than sheer incompetence.

The rumors from inside Google is that there's no way to get credit/be rewarded as an employee simply for maintaining an existing solution, or even for fixing obvious breakage. Every incentive is tilted towards starting new projects, often multiple projects in the same domain directly competing with one another. There are some positives to this of course, but clearly it's being overdone.
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