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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by Workaccount2 on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:22AM (#38969956)
Google needs to toss Sundar and get a competent CEO who can forcefully smash the org back into line.

Google has turned into these little micro clusters of ideologies and functional philosophies, leading to a horrifically fragmented mess of google branded products. All which come loaded now with end-of-life anxiety as google just farts out products that seem to dissipate just as fast.

The fact that most google apps function better on iOS than Pixel phones should be enough to get any sane board to take action. This is without even mentioning the disaster that search has become, or completely dropping the ball on LLMs.

Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by twisteriffic on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:35PM (#38974450)
> Google has turned into these little micro clusters of ideologies and functional philosophies, leading to a horrifically fragmented mess

Every large software org eventually becomes Microsoft.

Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by 0xcafefood on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:41PM (#38975166)
Google would be lucky to become another Microsoft. As things are going now, it's likelier to become another IBM.
Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by wildrhythms on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:21AM (#38990628)
I think upper management at big tech thinks having these internal warring factions somehow creates better products. What I hear from friends in FAANG is the VPs and directors don't even know what they're supposed to be working on most of the time.