What a time to be alive.
Great question Michael
Submitted 1 year ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to technology@beehaw.org
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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 year ago
onion@feddit.de 1 year ago
Just ask Copilot
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Seems like they’ve “over hired” in marketing.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why does Google charge more to enterprise users and why do they bother to pay for that?
smeg@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Businesses pay for software with support
termus@beehaw.org 1 year ago
What the fuck does Google know about support? They’ve never supported anything.
erwan@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Enterprise can afford more than individuals and all businesses always find a way to make enterprise customers pay more.
For example when you buy a plane ticket, it’s much cheaper if you have a weekend between your onward and outward trip. Because business travelers will travel during the week.
sanzky@beehaw.org 1 year ago
this is incredible common. in software offerings, an enterprise account per user can be twice or more the price of an “individual one”. eg. an individual intelliJ license is 200€ for the first year and 600€ for the enterprise one
phorq@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
As a Google Workspace user, I recommend going off the grid somewhere streetview can’t find you…
Gonkulator@lemm.ee 1 year ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year 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.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 year 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.
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 1 year 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.
EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year 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).