Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '...
by abvdasker on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:13PM
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> Not even Google
Social networking is just one entry in the long list of Google's failures, many of which were successfully executed by smaller companies:
* Chat. Google has tried like 4 or 5 different times to do chat and ultimately lost out to the likes of WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and others.
* Location/business Reviews. Despite having Maps, google still has yet to really come close to unseating Yelp in this arena.
* Wearables. Google Glass completely failed. Android Wear is well on its way to the grave. Fitbit, Apple and Samsung have all succeeded in wearables over Google.
* Augmented Reality. Remember Google Glass?
The list goes on. My point isn't that Google can't do anything right — that's obviously not true. What I'm saying is that Google trying something and failing isn't really a good argument against it being a viable idea.
Facebook's brand is ailing right now and I think there's growing concern about the way Facebook has been optimized to dominate the user's attention. There might be room for a social network that tries to be something much more minimal than what Facebook has become.
Social networking is just one entry in the long list of Google's failures, many of which were successfully executed by smaller companies:
* Chat. Google has tried like 4 or 5 different times to do chat and ultimately lost out to the likes of WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and others.
* Location/business Reviews. Despite having Maps, google still has yet to really come close to unseating Yelp in this arena.
* Wearables. Google Glass completely failed. Android Wear is well on its way to the grave. Fitbit, Apple and Samsung have all succeeded in wearables over Google.
* Augmented Reality. Remember Google Glass?
The list goes on. My point isn't that Google can't do anything right — that's obviously not true. What I'm saying is that Google trying something and failing isn't really a good argument against it being a viable idea.
Facebook's brand is ailing right now and I think there's growing concern about the way Facebook has been optimized to dominate the user's attention. There might be room for a social network that tries to be something much more minimal than what Facebook has become.