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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google (thebaffler.com)
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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

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[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Launching or Killing?

I don't think launching is an issue. It's the sheer number of products they kill off.

It's becoming comical how many times they've killed and relaunched Google Chat.

They've become incredibly unreliable.

[–] Odelay42@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both.

They shouldn't have launched 4 chat apps and killed 3.

They shouldn't launch products with no plan to support them.

They shouldn't kill products that customers use.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You wanna know who's to blame?

You'll never guess...

Steve Jobs. One of founders, Larry or Sergey, was given a piece of advice that they found so 'incredible' that they mentioned it during an interview and a book.

'Don't be afraid to trim the fat and kill products'. About 6 months after I read about that Google's products started dying like flies. They've kept the same pathological drive to murder products for over a decade since and it's fucking infuriating.

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tbf the motivation makes sense but don't publicly announce products just to abruptly drop them. I've literally never heard of an apple product that was discontinued. When you make it customer facing you'd best be prepared to put your weight behind it.

[–] Odelay42@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've literally never heard of an apple product that was discontinued.

iPods and the Newton come to mind.

Not many examples though eh?

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

iPods were sunset after a long successful run and basically being supplanted by the iPhone. And they did kill them, they just stopped making me one.