Re:Google+: Communities and photos
by eungyu on Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:20PM
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I thought it was very odd that Google inserted this paragraph in the beginning of a feature announcement blog post. I think it only reaffirms the inferiority complex of G+ by explicitly explaining that they are indeed a vibrant community.
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Don't read into it much. Google announces its daily Android activations regularly and it has the largest smartphone share in the world.
Facebook does that too.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/facebook-announces-monthly-...
Remember when people knock Google for not announcing Google+ numbers? They are saying Google is announcing numbers because they are bad.
Inferiority complex? Seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If they didn't, would you claim they didn't release numbers because they feel they have fewer users?
I don't think they're trying to imply anything. What's wrong with just giving you some numbers without any motivation behind it?