When Android was initially announced in 2007 by the Open Handset Alliance (headed by Google) their flagship project was billed as an "open…
  • IonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    351·
    2 years ago

    I heard this on the radio yesterday. Secretly ruthless is a good way to describe Google.

    SHAPIRO: OK. So big picture on this anniversary, 25 years in, if you could describe Google’s legacy in a sentence, what would that be?

    PATEL: Secretly ruthless.

    SHAPIRO: Oh, that’s rough. Wow. Secretly ruthless - that’s even less than a sentence. Give me a little bit more. Why do you say secretly ruthless?

    PATEL: Google has convinced everyone that it is this incredibly sincere and earnest company - that it’s just a bunch of goofballs making cool things. That is true. But I think if we just paid a little more attention to where Google’s money comes from - and it is almost entirely advertising - I think we would be able to see the company and its influence a little bit more clearly. But the truth is, it is an utterly ruthless advertising company that is very, very, very successful at delivering results to its clients.

    SHAPIRO: But Nilay, you didn’t mention how cute the Google doodles are.

    PATEL: Yeah, the - I understand. They’re very cute.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197548359/the-verges-nilay-patel-talks-googles-legacy-and-its-future-on-its-25th-anniversa

    • Jumper775@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 years ago

      This is very true, although from what I’ve seen both sides are correct. They give very little guidance to any of the stuff they put out, see killing off stadia or how badly they have been messing up chromeOS and just let their engineers do what they want until they lose their way then it falls off. They just don’t care about that because the ad money keeps coming regardless. It seems almost like a result of the fact that google just hires talent so no one else can have it and then they just let them do whatever they want. It’s almost like there are two googles.

      • Wooki@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Intellectual Property.

        That is it.

        You can’t protect a product or service will never reach customers. But you sure can protect a sold and failed product or service.

    • 0x2d@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 years ago

      I freaking love the new updates!!

      I love it when I can’t manage my own SSL certificates, even as root

      I love not being to use the fucking McDonalds app on a rooted device

      Web environment integrity is so great! It’s incredible that my rooted tablet will be locked out of lots of websites since I’m not using AUTHORIZED chrome on an AUTHORIZED device

      It’s so awesome that adblock will stop working in most Chromium-based browsers

      LIKE WTF I JUST GOT A PIXEL NOW YOU NEED TO RUIN IT?