Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
by jorvi on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:07PM
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> Google's product marketing is the absolute worst
As long as ‘killed by Google’ continues to be a well-known meme, they could have the best marketing department in the universe and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference..
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
by spicybright on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @04:39PM
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That's pretty silly. I know you're exaggerating a bit, but marketing is in the business of public perception. If google took steps to reverse the trend, and the marketing department could highlight that, that would kill the meme.
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
by jorvi on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:32PM
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Hence
> As long as ‘killed by Google’ continues to be a well-known meme
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
by DoctorOW on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:21PM
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As long as the fire continues to burn, the best firefighters in the world couldn't extinguish it.
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
by jorvi on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:32PM
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But the marketing departement isn’t the firefighters. They’re the marketing of the parks departement. Once the firefighters put the fire out (Google engineering stops haphazardly killing products), marketing can attract people to the parks again (Google marketing attracts people to their services).
As the sibling commenter mentioned, though, Google did just shut down their Pixelbook division, which is what I was referring to. And as a corollary, if you can forward this to anyone that matters, Google's product marketing is the absolute worst. And I say this as a big fan of Google's developer-focused products. Case in point, I'm a giant Pixelbook fan. If Google is shutting down Pixelbook development, why can't Google just put something on their store to point to alternatives, like you have?
As another example, I am heavily invested in GCP, and I'm a big Firebase fan. Yet I can hardly think of any other company that sells to enterprises that is so loath to even show a hint of what's on their roadmap. I get it, priorities can change, and you don't want to put something out there that is (incorrectly) taken as a promise. But tons of other companies have to deal with this problem, and with Google it's almost impossible to get any status about important bug fixes or feature requests.