Lots of good stuff going on. Good teams medium pace.
Good teams medium pace. Hard to enact change. Need to go with the flow
I am seeing a massive deterioration of GOOG products lately. Android studio corrupts its own cache after a couple of test projects. When searching for the error in quotes, Google is certain that no answer exists in internet. Bing immediately tells me how to fix it and references stackoverflow. Bard ...Read more
Windows 10S doesn't allow you to change the default search engine or default search browser so it's always Edge and Bing. Chrome isn't even available on it because apps have to be downloaded from the Windows store. This OS is targeted for educational systems so kids will use it at school and not use...Read more
Doomsday Scenario: People start to use Bing with ChatGPT integrated, force people to download Edge. Google starts to lose the market share in both Search and Chrome. Google makes a comeback with Bard but 1. Data Microsoft has accumulated via first mover's advantage makes ChatGPT perform better 2. ...Read more
-Windows Phone 8 disaster -Windows Phone 10 disaster and painfully drawn out death of the ecosystem -Referring to Android and iOS devices as “evilphones” and forcing his family to use Windows Phone into 2018 -Forced Windows upgrades and updates -Tricking customers into upgrading to Windows 10 when t...Read more
I keep seeing a trend where Edge keeps coming up as one of the worst products Microsoft has made. Instead of piling on, here is what I think JoeB should do. 1. Fire all but the 10 best engineers (1 PM, 7 Devs, 2 UI/UX) on the team who understand customers, agile development, and how to build cross-...Read more
We have learned that Google intentionally treats people differently on the basis of race and gender. While I am sure that they are well intentioned in this practice, I feel that it is morally unacceptable to treat people differently on the basis of race and gender. Because I don't support companie...Read more
Got to GCP a few months before the Google layoffs, after many years at Microsoft. Technically, GCP is great, but Microsoft could have done better with Azure. Some of the initiatives that I think are right at Microsoft have been there for a while and have nothing to do with Satya. The focus on diver...Read more
Edit: wrote this when pissed that I missed an exit adding 20 min to my drive. Maybe too harsh, but gonna leave the rest unedited. Maps recenter button seems like an edge case bug — see thread below. Google products keep getting significantly worse over time. Who are the incompetent engineers who k...Read more
#Top 5 Updates of the Week: * Tiktok’s new program in UK “Fulfilled by Tiktok” takes a stab at Amazon & highly differentiates it from other apps. * Youtube launches “new & returning users” metric for Creators. * Twitter (X) CEO says the platform is close to breaking even. * Facebook Groups will ...Read more