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Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by codingblues »

Klarifier wrote: post #129
vog wrote: post #66

The problems with Google start at the very basics of communication, with their policy of providing just one email adress (and nothing else) where you may or may not get an answer, effectively handling incoming requests more like petitions than providing real communication. This is in constrast to many other big companies where you get at least some reply (although it's often canned and not very helpful, but still mor…

Google can do what they want. If you want to do better, than do it. Complaining won't help you.

it sounds like you have never led a team before

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by alextingle »

joseph_cooney wrote: post #180
adestefan wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've evaluated what they are doing on their technical merit That's your problem. Google is phenomenal on their technical merit. It's the softer, people skills (support, listening to bug reports, etc.) where they constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

I score Apple and Microsoft pretty low on these two measures also. Support MS are OK to good, but listening to bug reports seems to be hard to do at scale. Can anyone provide any examples of people doing it really well?

Linux kernel.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by alextingle »

oakaz wrote: post #70
hahainternet wrote: post #60

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Identity fraud is a criminal matter. Talk to the police. If they have stolen copyrighted material, file a DMCA.

It's a technical doc without copyrights, that I wrote 8 years ago...

I don't understand what you mean. If the document was written only 8 years ago then its still got decades of copyright protection. You don't need to do anything besides write the document to have those rights.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by gtirloni »

trentmb wrote: post #179
foxylad wrote: post #176

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I thought Microsoft could kill a Windows app they didn't like these days. Maybe I'm wrong, and your point stands for earlier versions of Windows and Linux.

I was using 'Windows XYZ' as a placeholder, but yes, my point was w.r.t to earlier versions of Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

Really? How can Microsoft/Apple/Linus kill an app for recent versions of Windows/MacOSX/Linux? Perhaps I'm getting a different meaning from "kill" ... do you mean it won't be allowed or that the API's would change so much that it's not worth updating the app?

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by DarkStar851 »

Anm wrote: post #170
gcb0 wrote: post #169

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wha't s a "mn"? mili-newton?

He meant minutes. 45min.

That's usually acceptable. Annoying, no doubt, but those 45 minutes a month don't usually happen in 45-min blocks monthly. It's more like a few seconds every day, and a sparratic issue once or twice a year causing a few minutes.

SLA's commonly agree to 99.9% (and I've dealt with some picky clients), though 99.99% would be better, it's an acceptable amount. Servers break, people need to deal with it when they do, and we aren't all robots.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by sirkneeland »

pm wrote: post #190
SomeCallMeTim wrote: post #126

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Don't forget "They might break the API without warning. Every two to three months. (Facebook)." Your argument is exactly why I don't use Google AppEngine. I know there are open-source stacks now that you can use if you want to take your AppEngine code in-house, but trying to build up an AppEngine infrastructure at probably the worst possible time ("we're getting billed @ $10k/month, but only making $8k! getting more…

AppEngine is stable, but the feature set moves quite slowly. It's the opposite of Google Drive, it seems. It's the opposite of Google Drive, in that respect.

If I didn't know any better, I might think there is some sort of correlation between moving fast and breaking APIs (or "things" as Facebook likes to call them.

Re: “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

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Post by oakaz »

alextingle wrote: post #193
oakaz wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a technical doc without copyrights, that I wrote 8 years ago...

I don't understand what you mean. If the document was written only 8 years ago then its still got decades of copyright protection. You don't need to do anything besides write the document to have those rights.

see my last comment above
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