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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by dnautics on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:07AM (#18854294)
I wouldn't call google's products vaporware. There are definitely five that I have used. Search, Gmail, Maps, Youtube, and Android. I barely use google search anymore (DDG is my major driver) - I'm not too content with Gmail anymore, and my youtube use has gone down since their ad strategy has changed.

Probably Maps and Android are the two products they do that I would consider 'quality'.

I'm not happy with Tensorflow, Golang, or Kubernetes.

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by samatman on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:48AM (#18854886)
In the last twenty years, Google/Alphabet has killed more products than Apple has launched.

In a very real sense, Alphabet has an r selected corporate strategy, while Apple is K selected[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by baldfat on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:32AM (#18855705)
> my youtube use has gone down since their ad strategy has changed.

I pay for Google Music and YouTube for $16 for 5 family members and me. I haven't seen a YouTube ad for years. Best use of my money every month.

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by avinium on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:26AM (#18854597)
Tensorflow, I can understand - I imagine the rampant popularity of pytorch shows we're not alone.

What's your issue with Golang though?

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by dnautics on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:58AM (#18862859)
There was an article about how golang takes a very classist attitude... There are programmers who use go, that are the peons, and the programmers who write go, who are anointed.. like hashmaps breaking the typesystem.

It feels like a lot of the things that happen like if err != nil are code smell. I wrote a cli in go and wouldn't mind it again but I program in elixir now and the emphasis on developer joy is refreshing (but it makes wise choices, e.g limiting the scope of macros to lexical)

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by dnautics on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:12AM (#18854317)
oh chrome is pretty popular it seems (I use firefox)
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