Updates to our Google Voice apps

Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by johansch on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:41PM (#13464661)

I've never worked at Google, but... didn't Larry Page announce a full-blown program to fight that like 3-4 years ago? Work on features/depth rather than new products?

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by Uhhrrr on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#13465151)

Perhaps it was launched but it literally didn't matter whether that product went on to be successful.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by ww520 on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:47PM (#13465283)

That is ironically insightful.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by rconti on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:38PM (#13468101)

At least he got that promotion, though.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by st3v3r on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:18PM (#13466136)

He can launch programs all he wants, but unless that trickles down to management, and the incentives are aligned to at least reward iterative development as much as launching new products, it's not going to change anything.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by johansch on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:45PM (#13466357)

Seems like he should be in the power of defining the reward structure at Google though.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by st3v3r on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:40PM (#13466842)

He should have a bit of say in that, yeah. But if he didn't use any of that influence, then it wouldn't happen.

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