Google's Go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Roman Ivanov" <isroman-del at ete-km.ru> wrote in message 
> news:hjftkk$3up$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Roman Ivanov Wrote:
>>> They get lots and lots of undeserved attention. Even when the final 
>>> products are not that great, and occasionally when the people praising 
>>> them would be hostile towards the same kinds of products from smaller 
>>> companies.
>>>
>>> Reception often border on being an outright hysteria. It's mostly the 
>>> fault of the people who react this way, but both companies put a lot of 
>>> effort in creating this effect via various kind of marketing too.
>> Also, a lot of Google's recent software initiatives are really weird stuff 
>> with highly questionable value. However, because of the reception 
>> mentioned above, they kind of bend the existing software infrastructure 
>> and culture around themselves. Not in a good way too.
>>
>> For example, I really don't like the idea that Wave is going to be a 
>> replacement for the aging email infrastructure. (Which might not happen, 
>> but that's how it's marketed.) I don't like the idea of an 8-gig operating 
>> system that's designed to run one application. (Not entirely true, but 
>> close enough to reality.) Those things might be of high quality, they may 
>> be reliable in their own way, while still having negative effect on 
>> software industry as a whole.
> 
> Agreed on all the above.
> 
> And personally, I'd add a few more points:
> 
> 1. I'd add "cloud computing" to the list of questionable initiatives (or at 
> least questionable outside of certain niche use-cases that I'm sure probably 
> do exist).
> 
> 2. Their software generally reminds me of Apple software (no offense, or 
> bait, intended to any Mac-users here) in that, IMO:
> 
> 2.1. They tend to have lousy attention to detail (Google Code looks clean 
> and pretty, and maybe it's reliable, but trying to use it absolutely drives 
> me nuts. Plus, the stuff I mentioned about google maps in another post).

Google and Apple on which planet are you referring to? Far as I can tell 
they set the _standard_ on attention to detail, and Microsoft and others 
are desperately catching up!

> 2.2. They're annoyingly slim on configurable settings (stuff I mentioned 
> about google maps in another post, and why in the world they think I should 
> be force-fed a non-standard custom skin in Chrome).

Well yeah a better maps application is... oh, wait. Google maps is the 
best by a huge margin.

> 2.3. For their desktop apps, they like to force useless always-resident 
> services onto my system.
>
> 3. Heck, Google is a web-oriented company, and I just hate modern web 
> technology. ;)

3 contradicts 2.3.

Did you mean to be sarcastic?


Andrei