“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products”

Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by davidjgraph on Monday August 05, 2013 @06:48AM (#6159385)

Don't patronise me. I've been developing commercially for 20 years now, I'm not exactly wet behind the ears, nor easily persuaded by anything but facts.

I've evaluated what they are doing on their technical merit. If you want me to give you a detailed explanation of why I prefer their system, it'd probably take about an hour, so it's a bit much as a HN comment.

I genuinely think their direction with the API I'm using is the way forward, I've been waiting for someone to have the balls to do it for some time.

Any anyway, I must have missed the outpouring of love Google received for closing Reader, for not having a native Google Linux kernel OS Drive client, and so on.

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by adestefan on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:57AM (#6159794)

> I've evaluated what they are doing on their technical merit

That's your problem. Google is phenomenal on their technical merit. It's the softer, people skills (support, listening to bug reports, etc.) where they constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by e40 on Monday August 05, 2013 @10:10AM (#6160153)

Google is phenomenal on their technical merit.

It is precisely technical merit where they fell down and that's why he decided against the development.

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by znowi on Monday August 05, 2013 @09:58AM (#6160090)

> Google is phenomenal on their technical merit

They turn into Microsoft where brilliant engineers are bogged down by corrupt management :)

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by test-it on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:58PM (#6163412)

Funny that all the Google product managers I know personally are ex-Microsoft guys.

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by pyre on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:31AM (#6165135)

Does that mean that they brought Microsoft's problems to Google, or that Microsoft is having problems because they left? ;-)

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by joseph_cooney on Monday August 05, 2013 @11:28PM (#6164638)

I score Apple and Microsoft pretty low on these two measures also. Support MS are OK to good, but listening to bug reports seems to be hard to do at scale. Can anyone provide any examples of people doing it really well?

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Re:“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for ... by alextingle on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @05:10AM (#6165573)

Linux kernel.

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