Is Google lagging other FAANGM in innovation?
Aug 8, 2020
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Amazon may be the butt of most jokes here but it is killing it and the stock shows, Netflix is fast expanding in the pandemic, Apple posted stellar Q2 results despite pandemic and is growing its subscription based business, Microsoft has moved in the right direction with Teams and Azure cloud platform.
Where is Google? What was the last banging product they released? Stadia, the new Pixel, GCP, Google Meet? Will Google be dethroned as the poster child of innovation in the coming years?
Edit: I guess ‘innovation’ is a very loose term. What I mean is make a new product which is successful in the market both in terms of user experience and profitability for the company. Should have used better terminology in hindsight
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Google is also the leader in ML and AI.
Apple's innovation is upgrade HW in the same line of products? Latest innovation is killing headphone jack ?
Amazon is not innovation they are the epitome of execution. Simplest of ideas executed well is Amazon. No Innovation after Alexa and Kindle, both of which are losing market.
I felt Google buds and call screening is really innovative.
Google glass was and Microsoft Holo lens is exceptional innovation and way ahead of time , so they will never fly. So it's not just innovation, it's also what makes sense business wise.
If not for Google , if someone else had bought Android , it wouldn't have been what it is today. Innovation is that , that brings a paradigm shift to day today lives of humans , how they live, interact , perceive.
Google changed the whole landscape and day today lives of many in poor countries by building and making Android free. Today ,low cost smartphones have changed and transformed generations. That's innovation.
Google Maps is innovation , though Google bought it and built to what it is today.
Google search was innovation when it was first built.
Google books - Digitizing books was innovation ( not many know it) , Google working to digitize every book ever existed in earth.
MSFT made a home computer a reality, that's innovation.
Apple - changed how everyone perceives design, that's innovation.
FB - changed the Social interaction, that's innovation.
Amazon customer obsession is Innovation too, because no one built anything like this before. Ppl shop on Amazon more because of their trusted customer service.
Tesla is definitely a innovation, they brought a paradigm shift in the industry.
Teams, G Meets , that are all just building for a use case and someone built a better solution than the other.
Gtalk was an IM client. Hangouts failed to straddle both the IM and mobile messaging roles and now Google is betting on RCS. What’s a joke. They should’ve invested more on Hangouts or just gone all in on Allo but nope. Too late to copy WhatsApp in 2020 with RCS.