Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

  • Milksteaks [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is a great overview of the problem, I never even really thought about. It kind of really explains why they’ve binned and remade almost the identical apps multiple times. Maybe if they’d made more QOL and supported their apps with new novel ideas they wouldnt have slowly died out.

    Or even maybe if they’d make privacy respecting software instead of spreading their legs and whoring out all the data they collected on you they’d be doing much better too. Google has become a bloated beast that needs to be put down. Anti competitive and monopolistic behaviour with no innovation, it’s a wonder anyone uses their shit apps and services anymore

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      Google targets ads they deliver based on the data they collect. They don’t “whore out” the data. That’s just a lie that’s been repeated so often people take it as gospel. I’ve never seen a shred of evidence to support it, and when I worked there, the employee training everyone took annually was very, very clear on respecting user privacy and getting everything reviewed by privacy experts before it could be released.