Comment on It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 months agoLaunching or Killing?
I don’t think launching is an issue. It’s the sheer number of products they kill off.
It’s becoming comical how many times they’ve killed and relaunched Google Chat.
They’ve become incredibly unreliable.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Both.
They shouldn’t have launched 4 chat apps and killed 3.
They shouldn’t launch products with no plan to support them.
They shouldn’t kill products that customers use.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You wanna know who’s to blame?
You’ll never guess…
Steve Jobs. One of founders, Larry or Sergey, was given a piece of advice that they found so ‘incredible’ that they mentioned it during an interview and a book.
‘Don’t be afraid to trim the fat and kill products’. About 6 months after I read about that Google’s products started dying like flies. They’ve kept the same pathological drive to murder products for over a decade since and it’s fucking infuriating.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tbf the motivation makes sense but don’t publicly announce products just to abruptly drop them. I’ve literally never heard of an apple product that was discontinued. When you make it customer facing you’d best be prepared to put your weight behind it.
Odelay42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
iPods and the Newton come to mind.
Not many examples though eh?