Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simultaneously?

Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by Umalu on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:12PM (#2013189)

How? With 23,000 employees you can staff up a lot of internal projects. And with $30 billion in cash you can afford to acquire a lot of external projects.

Why? I think Google has a different philosophy than Apple. Where Apple seems like a design shop with a minimalist ethos (its highly-polished product line famously fits on a conference room table, and it prides itself on what it doesn't do), Google seems more like a start-up incubator hoping, by early release and rapid iteration, to see some of its ideas catch on, knowing all along that many will fail.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by jagira on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:32PM (#2013267)

If you are talking about jaiku or aardvark, then its fine. But TV, Mobile, Cloud, OS are all mainstream domains and their product ideas in these domains are beyond the incubation stage.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by chc on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:40PM (#2013299)

Google TV is not even released.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by zerohp on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:08PM (#2013686)

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/revue

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Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by bigohms on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:30PM (#2013255)

Shotgun vs. Sniper. The big thing is that there is digital string tied to all those pellets and bullets flying around.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simult... by rhizome on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:54PM (#2013349)

To put "23,000" employees into perspective, that's three times more people than EA employs.

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