The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today

It's simple really. Google does not make products that people want to buy. They make products that people want to/have to use.

Amazon understands the people that actually want to pay for products and is able to capture that market.

GCP is designed by googlers for googlers.

Google increased their map-prices by 1400% in one night and Firebase-prices were also massively increased... Google also deprecated 223 of their services... Many other bad things happen. I don't trust them and will not give them a penny.

What does the following mean: ARR, GTM, PMF, S&M?

IIRC, AWS had the free tier first. Which is what brought me in. I wasn’t trying to change the world, but I’ll take free server space if they’re giving it away.

Then they sealed the deal when a little Echo skill I wrote for myself gave me (and continues to give me) got me $100/month in AWS credits.

Combine that with every place of work using AWS, and I’m pretty much married to it. I at least know the UI, and for a programming who hates configuration, that means a lot (as far as getting in and getting out quickly).

All the technical details aside,

Microsoft under Bill Gates, Apple under Steve Jobs, Amazon/AWS under Jeff Bazos, and Tesla under Musk. To a somewhat lesser extent - Alibaba under Jack Ma, Oracle under Larry Ellison and Dell under Michael Dell.

You see a trend here? I reckon there is a connection between how well a Tech Company's products are received by the consumers based on whether it has an identified / globally recognized, Billionaire Head? I don't know but that's what came to my mind.

Sure, Jobs is not there any more nor is Gates the head of Microsoft but their legacy certainly carries on with the consumers.

The last thing the tech world needs is a bigger Google.

The article doesn't mention lock in. When I was looking at GAE in the early days I gave it a pass just because of this. I wanted a regular linux cloud server that I could move my app to another provider with very few problems if I wanted to. GAE would be ok for small brochure sites with maybe a tiny database but anything bigger and I would start to get cold feet.

Interesting but don't you think google has the advantage of being the major platform and they can learn from their mistakes without paying for them. While competitors have to be more careful

This reminds me how I used to write 20 years ago. Take a few classes in writing. couple of remarks about style, you make the reader work too much to understand whatever you are trying to say. A blog is not a twitter thread, post this on twitter if this is the style you like. Create a plan what you actually want to say with the post, because now it just seems like mudslide of your mind, wrapping up with some weird conclusion that doesn't really reflect the blog itself that well.

I cant' even understand what your arguments are for GCP to be bigger than AWS. It's no shame in being a good 3rd.

What's "GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite.)" mean for those of us that don't speak google?

google cloud’s ui is pretty poor in my opinion. Hard to find settings, unless you google for docs/help first.

Add the lack of proper account management and customer support to the list.

The way the article was written fits the common perception of Google. It was written for insiders who understood Google’s lingua franca. It didn’t offer any insight to the outsider other than to make them feel small for not being one of the cool kids.

So when do posters here expect Google will kill it?