Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notice every G product with a decent level of ongoing support & development is in some form or another an ad platform.
To be fair, DFP sucks too.
Tsk tsk. You mean Ad Manager :rolls eyes:
Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#572No 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 used to push google chat / video hard, including to external business partners. Then - yoink, google duo was hot, then yoing, hangouts? then yoink, hangouts meet? Then yoink, meet. It's honestly mind blowing. So now we are stuck on zoom.
The Hangouts move is still one of the most infuriating things I've seen in tech anytime in the last decade. Remember how Google was actively contributing to an open and interoperable spec for chat, and then just proceeded to go full Ayn Rand about it?
There's a pretty strong argument to be made that if any major players were still backing XMPP as a standard, we wouldn't all have a bunch of people in our lives who have said some variation of "I would quit Facebook right now if I didn't need Messenger"
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#573No 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…
The cross-integration docs should have by now and doesn't simply blows my mind.
Like why even doesn't sheets and docs have the exact same table cell formatting options?
Following that, why can't a sheet seamlessly embed to a google doc.
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#574I ran a whole business for years with Google Sheets API and Python front end. I agree that sheets is slow and lumbering, but the API works perfectly.
I did a small layman's demo here recently[1].
[1]https://medium.com/@muddi900/use-google-sheets-as-a-database...
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#575Google never had a ten year lead, that's pretty naive. Google had a ten year _lag_. Microsoft already had office when Google appeared, and while fans have numerous reasons to like Google docs & friends, they were never better or bigger than Office.
Chrome OS has a tremendous lag on windows and Mac.
It's really hard to innovate once you start to be compared to a established brand. Go ask Bing.
Unless duck duck go becomes larger than Google, they never blew any lead, only were defeated in places opponents were stronger.
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#576Earlier quoted context omitted.
> exclusive control of supply Is not the only, nor even the most useful, definition of a monopoly. And there's also not a magic moment where one second you're not a monopoly, and the next second you are when user X+1 signs up. It's a gradual process and that's why it is such a huge area of law.
Monopoly is semantically not very complicated. It's a fairly simple economic principle: - Monopoly = Exclusive control of supply - Monopsony = Exclusive control of demand If you want to redefine it to popular things, you should reflect on your motivation to do so.
You might want to reflect on why you want anti-trust law to only apply to the strict definition of a monopoly. That's why it's called "anti-trust" not "anti-monopoly".