Re:Has Google lost its mojo at I/O 2011?
by cageface on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @10:14PM
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Google seems to be playing catch-up on too many fronts lately. It's as if they feel they have to have their fingers in every pie just to stay competitive but then they roll out these lackluster, me-too implementations of their competitors' existing products. From the outside there doesn't seem to be a coherent strategy.
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That sounds exactly like the Microsoft scatter-gun approach. Might work well in the short term, perhaps even in the medium term...
With the number of engineers and people google employs it's obvious it's going to have to spread around to give everyone of them something to do.
I think it's fine as long as the top is able to keep it under control but I have to admit that there is some issues with them sticking to products when the road gets hard (wave) and also some of their approaches like zero support and all are often the wrong approach to some of the new stuf f they are going after (nexus one).
Other than that they are doing much better than Microsoft has in the 2000s at innovating.