Search, Ads, Analytics, Gmail, Docs, Drive, Youtube, Maps, Android, Calendar..
All 10 are category defining (but at least top 3) products. I'd like to have a 1-trick pony like that one day!
All 10 are category defining (but at least top 3) products. I'd like to have a 1-trick pony like that one day!
For the office suite tools they offer (calendar, docs, gmail and drive), they were the first to move to the cloud, but nowadays there are so many companies with similar offerings that are either cheaper or better.
Even Microsoft nowadays has Excel on the cloud, which let's all be frank. It's much superior.
Before I do look like a google hater, I use a Pixel, pay for Google drive etc, but I know how nowadays I have so much more interesting choices(better privacy, better phones etc) and don't move out mostly out of laziness.
YouTube was bought as well.
Android was bought as well.
Ads, YouTube and Android are valuable tech. Analytics, Gmail, Docs, Calendar are all shitty apps. Not in the sense that they're bad, just in the sense that there's nothing innovative about them.
Of everything that you mentioned in your list, the only ones that are genuine Google innovations are Search and Maps.
> rest is only buy/copy/steal.
Go check the wikipedia page for those products and scroll to the “History” section. You might be surprised how the common thread is “another company was doing X, and then”.
Not perfectly, I’d still like a good calendar based around sharing and collab, but the best out there.
I think we need a good decentralized calendar that treats all calendars as peers. Outlook and google treat a single server as being the authority and everything has to go to those servers for actions. I’d rather see something like a calendar blob for individuals that gets sent around and rehosted lots of places like git. Or at least the availability. It’s still funny to me how hard it is to tell someone off server what your availability is.