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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by eru on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:21AM (#16353002)
Rest assured, Googlers mostly saw the same thing, and asked the same question "what are product managers thinking?".
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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by pja on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:09PM (#16353850)
They were probably thinking "How many features do I need to claim responsibility for in order to get that next salary / stock option boost?"

By default feature creep tends to win out over less visible improvements: supporting the latter requires active effort from management.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by eru on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:38PM (#16377563)
Oh, I was mostly thinking about bystanding Googlers not working on hangouts.

Your description is reasonable for people working on a project. (But even inside hangouts there was dissent. I don't know too much about the specifics, and probably wouldn't be allowed to tell, if I did..)

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