Dear Google, I Love You and I Hate You
Dear Google,
I love you and I hate you all at the same time.
Like many others I use Google products at home and for my personal life, such as GMail, photos, Android phones, Nexus Player, Nest, etc. At work I use Microsoft products everyday for email, collaboration, Windows based hardware, etc. For vastly many different reasons.
I love Google's crazy ideas and they are pretty exciting, cutting edge and usually come with the promise of making our lives easier and more connected. However as excited as I get I am usually disappointed in the end.
Yahoo! failed me many years ago with the downfall of their photo services before they bought Flickr. I know many people love Flickr's services but Yahoo! is too unstable for my liking and Flickr in my mind cannot be trusted. So I made the jump to Picasa to upload all of my pictures and share them with my family. Almost 8 years later now my photos have traveled Google's various services: Picasa, Google+, and now Google Photos. For GMail you can use GMail or Inbox. There's the multiple attempts at TV.
I can go on and on through all of the failed services and stopped counting how many their have been. Remember Google Wave anyone? The ideas are great, and the initial product releases are promising, but soon their after you get the feeling that the product is know abandoned, and no longer important. I'm talking to you Android TV. I haven't even started on the messaging app disable. Hangouts, Google Messenger, and now Duo and Allo.
Google can complain all it wants about the "F word", but it creates fragmentation on it's own within it's own apps by abandoning their products in favor of new products instead of investing in its own current offerings.
One of the hot buzz words out there in tech today is "dog fooding" where your company uses the products it sells. Microsoft does this with Windows and Office 365, Amazon runs it's servers on EC2, but for some reason Google runs internally on Borg which is different from it's Google Cloud offerings. Which makes me wonder if Google dog foods it's other products.
Google please invest in your products and apps that you bring to the world after your release them and listen to your user base. We are becoming increasingly frustrated you with, and wonder why people use Apple products. I hate how closed off the Apple eco-system is which is your selling point, but Microsoft is catching up to you in many ways and starting to pass you in some areas. I will not recommend Google Apps anymore because I have not seen the investments being made. Look what Microsoft is doing with Office 365 and how much time and money they put into investing into their products.
Google I love you and I hate you.
I love you and I hate you all at the same time.
Like many others I use Google products at home and for my personal life, such as GMail, photos, Android phones, Nexus Player, Nest, etc. At work I use Microsoft products everyday for email, collaboration, Windows based hardware, etc. For vastly many different reasons.
I love Google's crazy ideas and they are pretty exciting, cutting edge and usually come with the promise of making our lives easier and more connected. However as excited as I get I am usually disappointed in the end.
Yahoo! failed me many years ago with the downfall of their photo services before they bought Flickr. I know many people love Flickr's services but Yahoo! is too unstable for my liking and Flickr in my mind cannot be trusted. So I made the jump to Picasa to upload all of my pictures and share them with my family. Almost 8 years later now my photos have traveled Google's various services: Picasa, Google+, and now Google Photos. For GMail you can use GMail or Inbox. There's the multiple attempts at TV.
I can go on and on through all of the failed services and stopped counting how many their have been. Remember Google Wave anyone? The ideas are great, and the initial product releases are promising, but soon their after you get the feeling that the product is know abandoned, and no longer important. I'm talking to you Android TV. I haven't even started on the messaging app disable. Hangouts, Google Messenger, and now Duo and Allo.
Google can complain all it wants about the "F word", but it creates fragmentation on it's own within it's own apps by abandoning their products in favor of new products instead of investing in its own current offerings.
One of the hot buzz words out there in tech today is "dog fooding" where your company uses the products it sells. Microsoft does this with Windows and Office 365, Amazon runs it's servers on EC2, but for some reason Google runs internally on Borg which is different from it's Google Cloud offerings. Which makes me wonder if Google dog foods it's other products.
Google please invest in your products and apps that you bring to the world after your release them and listen to your user base. We are becoming increasingly frustrated you with, and wonder why people use Apple products. I hate how closed off the Apple eco-system is which is your selling point, but Microsoft is catching up to you in many ways and starting to pass you in some areas. I will not recommend Google Apps anymore because I have not seen the investments being made. Look what Microsoft is doing with Office 365 and how much time and money they put into investing into their products.
Google I love you and I hate you.