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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by tootie on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:24PM (#18575153)
I may get scorn for saying this but it's the byproduct of a developer-first culture. They build amazingly functional products with no clear product strategy or branding. They need much more customer-focussed and product-focussed. That's why Apple and Amazon beat them on everything except search.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by alasdair_ on Saturday December 01, 2018 @12:34AM (#18575395)
>I may get scorn for saying this but it's the byproduct of a developer-first culture.

Google is now a promotions-first culture. You get promoted for launching new stuff, not for doing the work to make someone else's vision better.

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by PurpleRamen on Saturday December 01, 2018 @03:49AM (#18575953)
A company of rockstars without audiance.
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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by toyg on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:09AM (#18576807)
The bazillions of android users relying on Google services is a big audience, and fundamentally captive too.

I reckon the problem is that very few services actually make money, everything else is so low-stakes in monetary terms that they can afford to be super-casual about it.

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