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Comment by buredoranna | Hacker News Reader

> Pet peeve on Google's AI rollouts: there's no alignment across the three platforms they have...

just remember: despite they would have you believe they are are a united front... they are better thought of as a "loose federation of warring tribes".

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I hear much of what happens there is from PMs who want promotions, which makes me wonder if a goal (like interorg alignment) could be met by freezing their promotions until they Google Meet together & hash it out.

I’m reducing into silliness I’m sure, I don’t have any breadth or depth of knowledge here.

Edit: wonder why Apple is ostensibly different. MS seems similar, and don’t know enough about AWS—maybe I’ve seen complaints about them being disjointed, but not as much as Google & Microsoft.

Microsoft is definitely not like that. There are a bazillion versions of copilot. Copilot pc. Copilot vscode. Copilot on Windows. Wtf is going on.

Also famously, the million types of context menus in Windows.

Clarifying ambiguous comment (sorry):

Google and Microsoft are in the disjointed camp. Apple is not. AWS, I do not know.

>they are better thought of as a "loose federation of warring tribes".

Googly way to put it! Nice. Might steal that :)

most large corporations can be seen like this. Thats why stakeholder management is a full time job in those places.

they even have monkey knife fights (AKA, "resource distribution and trading")

united by a Performance Cycle

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