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Comment by danpalmer | Hacker News Reader

These are memes that are popular on HN, but don't reflect reality outside of the tech bubble. There are of course elements of truth to them, hence why they're so pervasive, but they are not representative of reality.

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It's for this reason that Google's ad business isn't really in danger at the moment, yes. People are going to continue to use google search and gmail and chrome.

But having this reputation in the tech bubble negatively effects things like google cloud that tech people get to make decisions on. This is one of the reasons that google cloud is so far behind AWS and Azure in adoption.

The only reason it might be behind azure is how aggressively Microsoft market azure to existing customers and bundle it with other products.

As a standalone product I'm not sure anyone would use it.

Azure has been nice to work with i have been comped multiple times for our own mistakes support is great im really not sure i get the hate..

Partially agree, but ... the tech bubble is pretty good on dictate trends and set standards that the general public will be in 2-3 years in advance.

I'm not sure that's accurate. We'd like to think so, but most tech trends don't take off and go mainstream.

Is that still true? I think a group of tech influencers existed in the past but I don't see any evidence that continues to be the case. I guess they could all exist in discords I don't have site into. Previously you could see trends migrate through tech communities and out into the world. I don't really see that now.

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