This approach isn’t without precedent. I saw much the same thing during the early days at Apple where new products were entirely driven by engineering. Engineers built whatever they wanted to build and it was up to the company then to sell it. Google apparently operates in much the same fashion.
All of this helps explain the Google tendency to have almost eternal betas, because there are no marketing-driven deadlines… ever. And why should there be? Given that most Google products aren’t intended to directly produce revenue, it may not matter.
This explains, too, how Google products — even those popular with their users — sometimes just fade away. Nobody wants to continue to support it, so the product dies.
Google is not your father’s software company, that’s for sure. The fact that it works so well (makes so much money) comes down to the realization I had that Google isn’t a software company at all. It’s an advertising company.
This approach isn’t without precedent. I saw much the same thing during the early days at Apple where new products were entirely driven by engineering. Engineers built whatever they wanted to build and it was up to the company then to sell it. Google apparently operates in much the same fashion.
All of this helps explain the Google tendency to have almost eternal betas, because there are no marketing-driven deadlines… ever. And why should there be? Given that most Google products aren’t intended to directly produce revenue, it may not matter.
This explains, too, how Google products — even those popular with their users — sometimes just fade away. Nobody wants to continue to support it, so the product dies.
Google is not your father’s software company, that’s for sure. The fact that it works so well (makes so much money) comes down to the realization I had that Google isn’t a software company at all. It’s an advertising company.
Ah, now THAT makes sense. - Tomy
I like this part, and I am missing space between paragraphs here :( - Tomy
We should allow for blankspaces, but nomore than one in a row. - Daniel
Deal - Tomy
Done. - Lasse