Is Google done with growth and innovation?
Nov 26, 2021
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Every quarter I see number ads for YouTube videos going up. Like before videos, during videos and then after it. They seem to increase top and bottom line with that but how far can they go? Google hardware lineups are so mediocre and cloud is one generation behind. Waymo seems to be doing manual testing for a decade and still doing testing with drivers.
PS: before Amazon haters jump-in, I don’t work at Amazon. I work at Stripe.
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Fuck Google!
Already moved search to DuckDuckGo
Already moved from Chrome to Firefox
In process of moving from Gmail to Protonmail
Already moved from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
Moved from Gdocs to the Microsoft suite
Moved from Google Maps to Apple Maps
Disabled Google Pay and moved to other services
Never used Google Play Music because Spotify is better
Can’t move from YouTube but I’ll use ad blockers wherever I can.
We use AWS at work but if there is any talk of GCP, I’ll try to veto it in Ops meetings (might not amount to anything but at least I will try)
Never used Google chat clients because they were/are garbage.
Try getting rid of"Google pixel" that's used for ad tracking. That's a good chunk of revenue for Google. If you tell me how you achieved it, I would love to know.
When a company gets as big as Google is now, it doesn't make sense for them to develop new products from-scratch. Their biggest technical advantage is the scalable infra developed over the years; this infra is actually a hindrance (in the form of unwarranted complexity) for young products with a handful of users.
It makes more sense for Google to let small agile startups innovate and compete, then acquire the winners to integrate with their other products/infra/ads. Far less risk.