Comment on Great question Michael

Gonkulator@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My understanding is that you didn’t see your career advance in Google if you maintained an existing product, only if you launched new ones. So, there is an internal bias in development teams to create new products while not keeping them around.

  In some cases, this would encourage Google developers to relaunch products rather than improve existing products.

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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All those closings and new launches also helps with reducing that pesky user base, get burnt a few times by Google and Microsoft looks much better.

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• AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google is not an endpoint if you wanna be a money-laden tech bro. To get real cash you gotta create a startup and grift some money out of VCs. To do that, it helps if you “innovated something totally new” at someplace with name recognition like Google.

  Everything except search and ads are simply practice grifts before the real grift. You cannot rely on any Google product to last for any length of time, even properties Google purchases will lose reliability as they fall into disrepair and neglect, see Nest.

  I used to love Google everything, I was on the wave beta. I was one of the first with a cr-48. It is sad for those of us that want to contribute to something big, cool, and impactful, watch for fuschia to implode next, I think it already started when they “had” to layoff “over hires.”

  One or two person teams don’t put a man on the moon. It takes a lot of really smart people working very small specific things together to make world changing stuff happen, the culture of Big Tech is not conducive to “real” work anymore. It’s big grifts run by little grifters.

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• EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microsoft does too. Every time I log in to Azure (or Intune, or Defender, or Microsoft 365 or whatever they’re all called these days) for work something has changed names. The documentation usually isn’t updated to reflect the changes.

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  • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do, but I think Google is worse about it because it’s all random back and forth. Most of Microsoft’s recent changes have been renaming Office something or Azure something to Microsoft something. Often the product name itself hasn’t changed, or when it does it’s usually grouping a bunch of products with separate names under one product line with related functionality (Defender didn’t rename, but it also absorbed a lot, Purview and Entra were new absorbed a lot of other product names).

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is six different Copilots…

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      • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, Copilot is their AI product line. The naming is awkward because the word itself sounds kind of weird, but in general it would be AI for Use Case. That’s how most of their products are named now.

        They have something like a dozen Purview products and eight or more Defender products.

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