It’s with mixed feelings that I’m starting my departure from Google services. My basic reasons are listed below: As a consumer, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that they’re an advertising company first and foremost. Their administrative interfaces are arbitrarily located, named, and designed. There’s no common design, no common location for management, and no consistency in experience. I don’t…
Decide What You Care About, and Map The Incentives
If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product not the customer. I’ve seen variations of this quote many times and I think it’s a crucial point when comparing how good companies are at something. Three areas I care about when considering whether to use a company are: Security Privacy Design And the most common entities I’m comparing…
More Google Failure
I am livid with Google right now. I’m currently dealing with two massively frustrating issues with their services. I am somehow unable to use Google Hangouts. I am perfectly signed into Google+. I’ve never disabled the service, which I’d have zero idea how to do, by the way, and yet I get the message above when I click…
Another Google Service Mystery
I wrote recently about how Google Services are often disorganized and non-intuitive.
This is Why Google+ Failed
Many thought Google+ was going to curbstomp Facebook. I took one look at the interface and knew it had limited life. Google just doesn’t get how to build a compelling interface for most of its products. Here’s a great example: Hangouts.
Why I Dislike Google Services
People often ask me why I’m so down on Android, and I’ve got a great example for you. I use a Google service called Pagespeed, which is basically their CDN for speeding up websites. It’s quite excellent, like many Google services. The problem is in how it’s managed. For years I’ve been using one particular portal, shown below.
Android Still Doesn’t Get It
I was at Best Buy recently, and wanted to check out the latest Galaxy S5 from Samsung. The hardware seemed pretty legit. Screen looked great. So I decided to check out the Internet. This is on a demo phone in the middle of Best Buy, you understand.
Android Isn’t Competing with Apple
This picture exemplifies why I use Apple instead of Google for my mobile platform. It reminds me of a single point—Google is an ad company. Apple is not. Apple is a lifestyle company. They obsess over how their products look and feel. They debate and stress and act snotty over the smallest detail, and take their pride and…
Google is the Disruptor
I just read a phenomenal article about Google. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131031003105-24171–googlewinseverything-part-1 You want to bring fiber to every home (Google Fiber)? Well, I’ll blanket the world with balloons (Project Loon) serving up WiFi to every square inch of the planet!Larry’s campaign, if successful, will make Caesar, Napoleon, Columbus, the Wright Brothers, the Apollo 11 Mission, the Manhattan Project, and our…
Media = AppleTV, Netflix, and AirPlay
I’m a bit impressed right now with that media experience I’m getting with Apple. To be clear, it’s like 20% of what it should be, but damn, that’s pretty good. AirPlay is way better than it sounds when someone describes it. When I sit at home and play music I play it to one of my monitors, to…
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