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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by wslh on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:38PM (#10928116)
> It wasn't that Google wasn't capable of building a good social network.

Like automatically creating a Google+ account for every google account without asking first? I can see millions of doormant accounts where you think you are following somebody when indeed there will never be an update from that account.

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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by bad_user on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:57PM (#10928177)
That's not true, Google+ accounts were not created automatically for Google accounts.
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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by wslh on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:07AM (#10929233)
It seems you missed many past news like:

- http://techland.time.com/2012/01/20/want-a-google-account-no...

- https://marco.org/2013/01/03/no-avoiding-googleplus (the WSJ later changed that page)

- http://www.cnet.com/news/getting-gmail-now-you-get-google-to...

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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:59PM (#10928184)
Perhaps initially. Now Google forces you to create one if you want to do various kinds of things. It's not quite automatic, true, but it's almost.
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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy by CaptSpify on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:45PM (#10928378)
Correct, but many people were "coerced" into making an account that they never had any intention of using.
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