It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

  • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Launching 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.

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      11 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.

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        11 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.