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Why does Tizen spell DOOM? It is a huge C system that traffics exclusively in pointers to void. Yes: it is full of typedefs to void*. Do you need to know anything else?
So, in whichever way Google flubs Fitbit, at least Samsung is out of their way.
My question is, what has gone so very, very wrong at Samsung as to have led them to pick up Tizen?
What a weird hit piece. The counterpoints are... legion. Youtube? Doubleclick? Android?
I'm not sure that phrase fits with your examples. Google has some products it has purchased that are doing well. But... Only a small number compared to the things they have purchased that they killed. Such that the legion is likely on the other side. Now, they have some behemoths that they bought. The general feeling I get, is if a product I have bought had the parent company change hands, I can expect greatly dimini…
Edit: I know my comments aren’t always great, bit can someone please confirm that I’m not shadow banned?
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 f…
To me the real question is: what will come of these antitrust investigations into their targeted ad business?
That's the cash cow upon which their stock price is ultimately based. They've been able to get away with a lot of failures because ultimately advertising is such a huge business for them.
But if there's any move to break apart that business or regulate it in a way to create more competition in the market, to me that could be the thing that could start to undermine their share price.
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.
I opened the article expecting to agree with it, then I got to the part about "does anyone use google flights instead of travelocity " and started to wonder if it was satire.
Yes, absolutely. I don't even know what Travelocity is :)
What surprises me is that people still use Expedia.
Agreed, this is probably satire.
I opened the article expecting to agree with it, then I got to the part about "does anyone use google flights instead of travelocity " and started to wonder if it was satire.
> does anyone use google flights instead of travelocity Yes, absolutely. I don't even know what Travelocity is :) What surprises me is that people still use Expedia. Agreed, this is probably satire.
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.
It seems to me like their goal with FitBit is data acquisition. They already have a massive amount of location and purchase information from millions if not billions of people around the planet from Android, Google Search, and YouTube. If they can get information on health status too, they can probably further improve their advertising system to improve ad relevancy. They can use that information to make targeted inv…
What a weird hit piece. The counterpoints are... legion. Youtube? Doubleclick? Android?