I feel that Google is falling behind on its innovation. As a long-time Android user, the last three releases are mostly UI changes while Apple has been releasing good software with every release and their pixel phone is super buggy and is way behind their competition. They couldn't even create a WhatsApp clone to take on iMessage and their messaging strategy is just a revolving door. The only place I see Google putting most of its effort is in search. Gmail hasn't seen updates other than up-selling the users on Google One. GCP is a distant third in cloud market share. I have seen customers moving away from GKE to EKS, it's an irony given that GCP created Kubernetes in the first place. I can't believe this is the same company that created great path-breaking products like Chrome, maps, chromebooks, gmail, gsuite etc. None of their products seem to be path-breaking or innovative just enhancements to existing products. It's great for the company but one innovation in search by competition might take the whole company down. Googlers, what do you think about innovation at Google?
It’s going to loose a lot of ad revenue once Amazon search ads kicks in
They already have Amazon search ads
It’s starting to grow. It hasn’t matured
A lot of innovation at Google is in ML. It's an AI first company. Search, maps everything is same but the use of ML is driving their ad engagements, which is terrific. Their hardware and data center software innovations are not visible to the external user but are reducing expenses by a lot too.
Hahahaha wgaf? It’s a company, not humanity’s progress compass
I feel like there’s nothing for software engineers to do once a company is stable. All you can do is optimize but that’s only so much
Their current focus seems to be on the "Privacy Sandbox", to try to seize control of advertising revenue on browsers, by trying to establish the industry standard with them as the owners. But all other browsers have rejected it, and so Google is floundering. Google just pushed by their release by a year, to try to give more time to convince the other browsers to lower their standards to match Googles, but it's a losing battle. In 5 years time we'll all switch to a different browser because we can't stand the increasing ad spam that Google insists on forcing upon us. It'll get worse and worse as they lose market share and are desperate to maintain ad engagement. You think 2 mandatory ads for YouTube are bad now? Wait until it's 4
So if you just paid the $12 monthly for ad-free YouTube your whole problem goes away? Also, it’s customers’ consensus that Google has the best search engine, and that’s what a browser is supposed to do is search. I don’t see any future in which Google loses out in the browser.
Yeah, that's why you should stop using Chrome and YouTube. Install adblocks on all browsers, use Firefox and ddg. Newpipe FTW, it doesn't show any ads. Telemetry/data governance is in every product they make.
You feel like apple is doing something because for years and years it's been the same software. You call apple innovative in software? Lollll
Engineers get rusty with their skills once many problems have been solved and there’s nothing much left to solve
Even Gmail is starting to look like yahoo mail with the new UI change
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I was an early adopter of gmail and used to be jazzed by it. Now I’m afraid I’m no longer a fan. There’s so much visual clutter that I’m surprised google UX teams haven’t done a total revamp. (I use it mainly on laptops).
Their pixel phone range is a disaster. They are new to hardware but more often that not pixels run into lot of silly software bugs and are unstable to use. Samsung has a lot more stable android UX than pixel sadly. All those LC hards they ask in their interviews aren’t reaping much benefits looks like.
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Innovation != User Experience. And Google has always been pretty crappy at UI/UX.
as a TLM working on Frontend tools, I agree. we are looked down upon for UI and UX internally
But Google has one of the highest bar for UXD roles??