For real though. Why the f*** does google do this?
My understanding is that you didn’t see your career advance in Google if you maintained an existing product, only if you launched new ones. So, there is an internal bias in development teams to create new products while not keeping them around.
In some cases, this would encourage Google developers to relaunch products rather than improve existing products.
Google is not an endpoint if you wanna be a money-laden tech bro. To get real cash you gotta create a startup and grift some money out of VCs. To do that, it helps if you “innovated something totally new” at someplace with name recognition like Google.
Everything except search and ads are simply practice grifts before the real grift. You cannot rely on any Google product to last for any length of time, even properties Google purchases will lose reliability as they fall into disrepair and neglect, see Nest.
I used to love Google everything, I was on the wave beta. I was one of the first with a cr-48. It is sad for those of us that want to contribute to something big, cool, and impactful, watch for fuschia to implode next, I think it already started when they “had” to layoff “over hires.”
One or two person teams don’t put a man on the moon. It takes a lot of really smart people working on very small specific things together to make world changing stuff happen, the culture of Big Tech is not conducive to “real” work anymore. It’s big grifts run by little grifters.
I met someone at a party who works at Google. She told me that too many decisions are made by engineers instead of like a higher up product person.
That’s not contradicting what you said. Others have also said there’s a lot more rewards for making something “new” rather than maintaining something.
It’s a failure of Google management
Microsoft does too. Every time I log in to Azure (or Intune, or Defender, or Microsoft 365 or whatever they’re all called these days) for work something has changed names. The documentation usually isn’t updated to reflect the changes.
Microsoft has been trying to be more proactive about this: they changed all their documentation to say Entra ID instead of Azure Active Directory…before actually changing Azure AD to be called Entra ID…
Just ask Copilot
You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.
Marketing people at MS:
What should we name this virtual assistant? How about Cortana? What’s a Cortana? It’s that assistant from Halo, it’s like Clippy but with boobs.Clippy never had a voice and tbh the one that comes to mind for him is not very easy on the ears. Like downpitched spongebob.
Clippy’s voice is the shrieks of bending metal, but on too small a scale to be heard by human ears.
I wish we got Clippy with boobs, id even settle for a Bonzi Buddy with boobs.
Best I can do is your chest with boobs
Fun fact: Cortana is named after a French sword
What’s the Pillar of Autumn named after?
Some dude named Autumn’s dick
Cortanas boobs got nerfed in the later games
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As a Google Workspace user, I recommend going off the grid somewhere streetview can’t find you…
Why does Google charge more to enterprise users and why do they bother to pay for that?
Enterprises usually need/want additional features, customizations or guarantees, like for example:
- integration of a Single Sign-On system
- on-premise hosting
- Service-Level Agreement for the availability of the service
A good place to leave this:
Businesses pay for software with support
What the fuck does Google know about support? They’ve never supported anything.
