Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are

My take-away

> Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president for search and user experience, says 60-80% of Google’s products may eventually fail. Unfortunately, the few that survive are neither all that inspiring nor market leaders. What Google lacks is not infrastructure, engineers, money, time or even great ideas. It’s the ability to delight users. What Google is missing, in other words, is strategic design.

> Apple has no pretense at “openness”

They might control the hardware and the app store but the software stack is not so closed e.g. Darwin Streaming Server, Webkit, OpenDarwin, blocks & Grand Dispatch, libcocoa, Objective-C and the list goes on