Can someone explain why Google is investing so heavily to get a successful messaging app? What is the vision here of having it in their suite?
Yammer
Vision is for its users to spend more time on google apps than others. For ads, data,etc..
Thought competing products was the Microsoft way of doing things :-) Google guys stop copying us lol
It's a meme
If they had a clearly articulated vision they wouldn’t have released so many messaging apps with the same functionalities. They’ve no vision. This mess is the product of PMs and engineering managers wanting to get a promotion for releasing a new product. At google that’s the quickest way to get promoted. Google has no product sense generally speaking. They are just a academic company. Just compare with amazon which is a highly product centric company.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has Skype, Skype for Business, Teams, GroupMe, Kaizala, Xbox Messaging, Outlook...did I miss any?
Lync?