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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by m0zg on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:26AM (#18842994)
You should have said "G Suite calendar". Technically I suppose it's "Google" calendar, so you're not wrong, but a number of things aren't really available on G Suite, which Google positions as their "business" offering. And a lot of other things aren't available on consumer GMail. That's probably why you're having issues adding others to a family group.

Should it be available? I suppose it should. But it's not really a problem for 99.99% of their users. The rest can use Alexa. :-)

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by privateSFacct on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:38AM (#18843041)
I switched our company to google - I’m someone heavily in the google ecosystem and not supported by google.

Alexa does support me even though I don’t pay them for email. This is just one point, but illustrates the point.

Google has better tech, but weird product delivery approach. And I moved to AWS from google compute for a similar set of reasons.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by m0zg on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:43AM (#18843053)
Google works very simply on the inside: you get rewarded for launching _new_ impressive stuff. You rarely if ever get rewarded for fixing old and busted _existing_ stuff.

Whether the newly launched stuff is suitable for the user is a tertiary concern. So yeah, no disagreement there, Google is not very user-focused, and has never been. But they're so far ahead technologically that in a lot of cases I'm willing to forgive them their ADHD.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by privateSFacct on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:38AM (#18844944)
That would totally explain this! I'm often like, this tech is amazing. But wait, this doesn't even work with this other thing it should work with. It's definitely the fix / polish / integrate corner cases.

Google+ was a nightmare as well with youtube and other services - again, I was like how are you listening to users with these approaches.

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