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It's going to be interesting if Google/Samsung will win out or Meta/etc.

What category has Google really succeeded in since the initial era of gmail/Android/chrome? I can't think of any recent successes off the top of my head.

The most recent success:

>YouTube TV has piloted past a new milestone: The internet pay-TV service now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant. That means YouTube TV, available only in the U.S. starting at $72.99 per month, is far and away the biggest internet-streaming subscription TV service in the country.

-Feb 6, 2024

'really succeeded' sounds super crazy dismissive.

Besides android being gigantic huge, you still have google maps, chrome, gmail, pixel phones, passkey, yubikeypush/2fa, the new cookie aproach, YouTube!!1 etc.

Why would Google need a 'recent' success to be able to win ar snail?

the point is probably about whether google still has the ability to go from 0 to 1. instead of 1 to n. from the outside they look like they are not so slowing becoming the bean counting accountant / MBA type of company.

What a weird framing? You say this as if gmail, android and chrome are all dead now. They’re still being used and improved. Even if they didn’t enter new “categories” they’re still in a lot of existing ones and very popular -like hundreds of million of users- even if alternatives exist.

First of all, Google Search has maintained dominance and relevance for decades. That’s no easy feat. They have news, patents, books, LLMs all added into it.

Google has a hugely popular cloud service. Especially if you include Google Workspace.

Obviously YouTube is huge and regularly gets new features. There is a YouTube app for almost every piece of hardware with a screen.

They have a pretty impressive mapping product suite. Everything from Google maps to Google earth and all their GIS products and tools (eg solar panels location SaaS).

The play store is huge. AND They have a huge variety of extremely popular consumer apps like Photos, Music, Home, etc.

I meant that it felt like they haven't had any massive successes with any recent launches.

Zero chance Google actually supplies Samsung with a real operating system they can use. Samsung will for sure release a headset with Meta’s Horizon OS before anything from Google.

LOL. Watch I/O on May 14 for the debut of AndroidXR on the Samsung VR headset with a faster Qualcomm SoC than the one in the Quest 3.

I wonder if every category has a "winner". When compatibility was a determinant, you had winners (Microsoft, obv.). I'm not sure winner-takes-all applies any longer.

Isn’t Samsung going bankrupt at this point?

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