> It’s amazing how they have four monopolies and only monetize one of them. They appear to me to have begun monetizing google maps. And it is awful.
What are the four monopolies?
cloud computing is one of them /s
Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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#162I have a Chromebook and I'm really found of it, but the Android and Linux parts seem half-baked and a depart from the Chromebook's initial proposition.
I really like this setup where my computer is just a thin client to my infrastructure. In the case of ChromeOS, this is all a closed/proprietary environment managed by Google, but nothing prevents challengers from implementing this setup based on open standards and user freedom.
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#163I'm sure these alternatives work for some, but I really don't find "Hey" a suitable alternatives to Gmail, nor "Notion" to Google Docs. I think the innovation and updating in those Google products has stagnated a lot, but they're still better for actual work and business than the new hip things.
> but I really don't find "Hey" a suitable alternatives to Gmail
I don't get why people need an alternative to Gmail. Email is already decentralized. Just buy a custom domain for a few dollars per year, and then use any email provider you want. You'll own your email address forever.
I currently host my email on Protonmail, but if I ever decide to switch providers, I can do it without having to give people a new email address. I could even go back to Gmail. Worst-case scenario is that I lose the old messages in my inbox that I failed to back up, but that's no big deal.
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#164To Quote SJ: "The only problem with Microsoft is, they just have no taste"
Repeat that for Google.
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#165To be clear, this is a stealth ad for Hey email service wrapped in a rant against Google. #1 on HN 20 minutes after posting. It's quite impressive, actually.
There are more Apple products listed. Maybe it’s a push to get beta OS users?
Everyone knows Apple, I have never heard about HEY.
The article doesn't really say anything, so I can see how it being at the top would be suspicious.
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#166The same article will fit well for Waymo as well.
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#167No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely. I used…
I'm also an early gsuite user and have the same complaints about assistant integration - but I am 85% sure that I tried to create a new google for business account to verify that it would at least work if I was paying, and it didn't.
Which led me to experimenting with migrating off my legacy gsuite, and with the API rate limiting, it seems it would take upwards of 30 days. I can download that data in 10 minutes if it's unhindered.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article rings completely true to me. One simple example: folders in Google Drive. * It's a constant struggle to keep documents in folders so that you can find them easily. * Yeah I get that I can do google search and find docs wherever they live. But I can't find docs if I don't know that they exist. * Moreover, I can't ensure that important documents are reliably stored in folders where everyone else can find th…
Can you elaborate more? I have no issues to put files or Google Docs in whatever folders I want in Google Drive, and they stay where they are (after all, Google Drive has local sync. It would be unusable if they don't).
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#169Google is an experiment in what happens when you give a bunch of smart people a 6-7 figure UBI (funded, of course, by search).
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#170No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely. I used…
> Now it looks like office 365 is going to be the cloud editing future for word / excel type needs
You are in for a surprise. Office 365 (at least Excel and Word) looks like a toy compared to the desktop versions. I'm not talking about niche features or VBA, I'm talking about things like naming a table, which is explicitly only supported in the desktop version. Ah, of course! You need the table's name to use it in their Power Automate platform. Microsoft 365 is a mess right now. I hope it improves.